Quotes of: Ralph-waldo-emerson Keyword

Where such men love they have no desire and where they desire they cannot love

Sigmund Freud

Idealism, alas, does not protect one from ignorance, dogmatism, and foolishness.

Sidney Hook

Tolerance always has limits - it cannot tolerate what is itself actively intolerant.

Sidney Hook

Here at Wisconsin we didn't get an undergraduate course in mathematical logic until the '60s.

Stephen Cole Kleene

Most discoveries even today are a combination of serendipity and of searching.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

I have no riches but my thoughts. Yet these are wealth enough for me.

Sara Teasdale

One may define flattery as a base companionship which is most advantageous to the flatterer.

Theophrastus

Ah, yes, superstition: it would appear to be cowardice in face of the supernatural.

Theophrastus

From warriors ravens grew red And with their leader a host attacked.

Taliesin

I was very intensely concerned with all kinds of new media.

Ted Nelson

There is a tendency to seek an objective account of everything before admitting its reality.

Thomas Nagel

The Onion Field made a real writer. And then I knew it was over, I couldn't be a cop anymore.

Joseph Wambaugh

The real test of good manners is to be able to put up with bad manners pleasantly.

Kahlil Gibran

'An Unquiet Mind' wasn't hard to write in terms of the actual writing of it.

Kay Redfield Jamison

With grief, you have reason to despair; it's a human thing.

Kay Redfield Jamison

Existenz only becomes clear through reason; reason only has content through Existenz.

Karl Jaspers

Sovereignty must not be used for inflicting harm on anyone, whether citizen or foreigner.

Ludwig von Mises

The welfare of a people lies not in casting other peoples down but in peaceful collaboration.

Ludwig von Mises

In America, the policeman is a working-class hero. In England, the policeman is a working-class traitor.

Martin Amis

The most important principle of environment is that you are not the only element.

Mahavira

Innovation is about practical creativity - it's about making new ideas useful...

Max McKeown