Quotes of: Ralph-waldo-emerson Keyword

We do not place especial value on the possession of a virtue until we notice its total absence in our opponent.

Friedrich Nietzsche

People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Fay Weldon

Timothy McVeigh was a coward. Violence is the stupid way out. It'll discredit any real legitmate movement.

Glenn Beck

When the Aggregates arise, decay and die, O bhikkhu, every moment you are born, decay, and die.

Gautama Buddha

Tune as the sitthar, neither high nor low, and we will dance away the hearts of men.

Gautama Buddha

As you walk and eat and travel, be where you are. Otherwise you will miss most of your life.

Gautama Buddha

Even as a solid rock is unshaken by the wind, so are the wise unshaken by praise or blame.

Gautama Buddha

The act of willing this or that, of choosing among various courses of conduct, is central in the realm of ethics.

Corliss Lamont

I want you to be everything that's you, deep at the center of your being.

Confucius

We should keep the dead before our eyes, and honor them as though still living

Confucius

Forgive me if I sleep until I wake up.

Charles Olson

I couldn't see myself filling some definite niche in what is called a career. This was all misty.

Carl Sandburg

You have to be literate in today's world. We're not going to get away with not teaching boys to read.

Christina Hoff Sommers

At my father's request I took up the study of law at the University of Zurich In 1863.

Carl Spitteler

The rockets... can be built so powerfully that they could be capable of carrying a man aloft.

Hermann Oberth

Its not a global village, but we're in a highly interconnected globe.

Howard Rheingold

Justice prevails over transgression when she comes to the end of the race.

Hesiod

I grew up taking it for granted that missionaries were what American boys grew up to be.

Huston Smith

The ability of a television series to make adjustments is something you've got to take advantage of.

J. J. Abrams

The dualism itself becomes a sort of presupposition or datum; its terms condition the further problem.

James Mark Baldwin

In Socrates' thought the two marks of individual self-consciousness appear; it is practical and it is social.

James Mark Baldwin