Quotes of: Ralph-waldo-emerson Keyword

When a fantasy turns you on, you're obligated to God and nature to start doing it - right away.

Stewart Brand

In the exercise of God's efficiency, the decree of God comes first. This manner of working is the most perfect of all and notably agrees with the divine nature.

William Ames

Nothing exists from eternity but God, and God is not the matter or a part of any creature, but only the maker.

William Ames

This subsistence, or manner of being of God is his one essence so far as it has personal properties.

William Ames

Authentic values are those by which a life can be lived, which can form a people that produces great deeds and thoughts.

Allan Bloom

Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men.

Baruch Spinoza

I was an avid radio fan when I was a boy, as well as a great lover of comic strips.

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.

Jean Baudrillard

If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, we feel a certain void. Nothing in the paper today, we sigh.

Lord Acton

He who attends to his greater self becomes a great man, and he who attends to his smaller self becomes a small man.

Mencius

There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.

Niels Bohr

Obama's policies have been approximately the same as Bush's, though there have been some slight differences, but that's not a great surprise. The Democrats supported Bush's policies.

Noam Chomsky

A constant struggle, a ceaseless battle to bring success from inhospitable surroundings, is the price of all great achievements.

Orison Swett Marden

Where the quest for knowledge is relatively, and now almost absolutely, unrestrained, the public benefit will be great, especially where the certainty of the law ensures that knowledge is rewarded. This is exactly the combination that is the foundati...

Paul Johnson

Christopher Hitchens was a great warrior, a magnificent orator, a pugilist and a gentleman. He was kind, but he took no prisoners when arguing with idiots.

Richard Dawkins

There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder.

Ronald Reagan

America is the first great experiment in Protestant social formation. Protestantism in Europe always assumed and depended on the cultural habits that had been created by Catholic Christianity.

Stanley Hauerwas

Being called 'conscious' is a great thing to be, but it's the connotations and preconceived notions that come with the buying audience about what conscious music can be.

Talib Kweli

I remember my mom had a big collection of copies of Saturday Evening Post magazines, and that was really my introduction to those great illustrators.

Thomas Kincade

I am a great fan of science, but I cannot do a quadratic equation.

Terry Pratchett

In the animal world, on the other hand, the process of evolution is characterised by the progressive discrimination of the animal and vegetative functions, and a consequent differentiation of these two great provinces into their separate departments.

Wilhelm Wundt