Quotes of: Ralph-waldo-emerson Keyword

Not only am I physically and emotionally attracted to women, I also wonder what being a woman would be like.

William T. Vollmann

Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish.

John Henry Newman

We, as we read, must become Greeks, Romans, Turks, priest and king, martyr and executioner; must fasten these images to some reality in our secret experience, or we shall learn nothing rightly.

The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Napoleon said of Massena, that he was not himself until the battle began to go against him; then, when the dead began to fall in ranks around him, awoke his powers of combination, and he put on terror and victory as a robe. So it is in rugged crises,...

Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume I: Nature, Addresses, and Lectures

Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.

Chapterhouse: Dune

Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.

Civilization and Its Discontents

At the heart of the celebration, there are the poor. If [they] are excluded, it is not longer a celebration. [...] A celebration must always be a festival of the poor.

Community And Growth

Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know

The Complete Poems

The road to creativity passes so close to the madhouse and often detours or ends there.

The Denial of Death

Obviously, all religions fall far short of their own ideals.

The Denial of Death

Relationship is thus always slavery of a kind, which leaves a residue of guilt.

The Denial of Death

Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.

Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

Aquellos de espíritu superior entienden la justicia. Los ordinarios, el beneficio.

El Arte de la Estrategia

They seemed to come suddenly upon happiness as if they had surprised a butterfly in the winter woods.

Ethan Frome

As it is, the lover of inquiry must follow his beloved wherever it may lead him.

Euthyphro

A language is a map of our failures

The Fact of a Doorframe: Poems Selected and New, 1950-1984

the weekly thirty minutes of sexual stress was a chronic but low-grade discomfort, like the humidity in Florida

Freedom

Reality denied comes back to haunt.

Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said

Basically, all women are nurturers and healers, and all men are mental patients to varying degrees.

The General's Daughter

It’s a great advantage not to drink among hard drinking people.

The Great Gatsby

Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.

The History of Freedom