Quotes of: Ralph-waldo-emerson Keyword

Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.

Democritus

Why is it the philosopher who is expected to be easier and not some scientist who is even more inaccessible?

Jacques Derrida

The paintings by Van Gough and Chagall had a big influence on me.

John Dyer

A man can do what he ought to do; and when he says he cannot, it is because he will not.

Johann Gottlieb Fichte

You don't know what you're going to get into when you follow your bliss.

James Hillman

If you are still being hurt by an event that happened to you at twelve, it is the thought that is hurting you now.

James Hillman

The state is in danger of falling into disrepute due to the evidence of its inadequate resources.

Jurgen Habermas

Manhattan... capital of the 20th century, a city that has fascinated me for more than three decades.

Jurgen Habermas

There are special, strange gifted people in the world and they have to be treated with understanding

John Knowles

Hong Kong film audiences are very quiet. It's their culture.

Jet Li

Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself.

John Locke

New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.

John Locke

I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment.

John Locke

All evil comes from the old. They grow fat on ideas and young men die of them.

Jean Anouilh

Men tend to try to struggle to be more rational and reduce things to simplicity more and are more impatient with ambiguity than women are.

John Crowley

I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.

Joseph Conrad

In sum, thought and reflection have been rendered thoroughly pointless by the circumstances in which modern men and women live and act.

Jacques Ellul

Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.

Jean de La Fontaine

To say of men that they are bad is to say they are worse than we think we are, or worse than the ideal man whose image we have built up on the basis of a certain few.

Jean Rostand

No consensus of men can make an error erroneous. We can only find or commit an error, not create it. When we commit an error, we say what was an error already.

Josiah Royce

The New Testament is of full authority and open to the understanding of simple men as to the points most needful to salvation.

John Wycliffe