Quotes of: Ralph-waldo-emerson Keyword

The sacred formula of positivism: love as a principle, the order as a foundation, and progress as a goal.

Auguste Comte

The tragedy is that women so committed to survival cannot recognize that they are committing suicide.

Andrea Dworkin

Racism is man's gravest threat to man - the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous.

Alexander Hamilton

In common use almost every word has many shades of meaning, and therefore needs to be interpreted by the context.

Alfred Marshall

To make things 'perfectly clear' is reactionary and stupefying. The real is not perfectly clear.

Avital Ronell

Man is an animal that makes bargains: no other animal does this - no dog exchanges bones with another.

Adam Smith

Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.

Adam Smith

No society can surely be flourishing and happy of which by far the greater part of the numbers are poor and miserable.

Adam Smith

The Bio-diversity Convention has not yielded any tangible benefits to the world's poor.

Atal Bihari Vajpayee

If American politics are too dirty for women to take part in, there's something wrong with American politics.

Edna Ferber

I actually think that I'm a rather optimistic and happy person; it's just that I'm not a very positive person, if you see the difference.

Linus Torvalds

If we just wanted positive emotions, our species would have died out a long time ago.

Martin Seligman

There's this sort of male energy that we have that can seem very destructive. But it doesn't have to be. It actually can be a very positive force.

Nick Flynn

Try to always stay focused on the objectives that are possible and the positive - and on having fun outside of the stuff that's going on in Washington.

Rush Limbaugh

My wife was the first romantic partner who understood both American and native parts of me - not so much the positive stuff, but the damage.

Sherman Alexie

Clearly, there aren't enough positive moments or interactions happening in the workplace. As a result, our economy suffers, companies suffer, and individual relationships suffer.

Tom Rath

Positive defaults protect you from yourself - and that helps you to make decisions in the moment that are better for your long-term interests.

Tom Rath

In our country religion is not different from philosophy and religion & philosophy don’t differ from science.

Virchand Gandhi

An epigram is but a feeble thing - With straw in tail, stuck there by way of sting.

William Cowper

Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

William James