Quotes of: Ralph-waldo-emerson Keyword

... like an entirely cloudless sky when one is going mountaineering...

Swann's Way

... washed clean like a porcelain, with housewifely care...

Swann's Way

To determine not to think of it was but to think of it still, to suffer from it still.

Swann's Way

But music is, at the very minimum, inflammatory, exclusionary, divisive, encouraging of snobbery and solipsism.

The Song Is You

Nu primejdia e ceea ce iubesc. Stiu eu prea bine ce iubesc. Eu iubesc viata.

Terra dos Homens

The faith is not the problem, Bernadette. The problem is the faithful.

Prayers for the Assassin

The issue is always the same: the government or the market. There is no third solution.

Planned Chaos

The mind-identified state is severely dysfunctional.

The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

in every pleasure, cruelty has its place...

The Picture of Dorian Gray

The creative act is not pure.

The Quotable Gordimer; or, The Wit and Wisdom of Nadine Gordimer

In Russia everything is a secret, but there is no secrecy.

The Romanovs: The Final Chapter

If I be waspish, best beware my sting.

The Taming of the Shrew

Sînt imorală, grozavă, brutală și mă mănâncă pielea, cu ce te pot servi?

Un caz de iubire la Hollywood

Having one king, one god, one belief, they can act single-mindedly.

Voices

It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.

VALIS

When you are crazy you learn to keep quiet.

VALIS

Friends... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams.

A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

We forfeit three-quarters of ourselves in order to be like other people.

Arthur Schopenhauer

We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.

Galileo Galilei

Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.

Henry Miller

In the end, people are persuaded not by what we say, but by what they understand.

John C. Maxwell