Quotes of: Ralph-waldo-emerson Keyword

Art makes us human, music makes us human, and I deeply feel that science makes us human.

Brian Greene

O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.

Christopher Marlowe

To so enter into it in nature and art that the enjoyed meanings of life may become a part of living is the attitude of aesthetic appreciation.

George Herbert Mead

Like most modern Americans, I assume individuality is not only a fundamental value, but a goal in life, an art form.

Howard Rheingold

Every society and religion has rules, for both have moral laws. And the essence of morality consists, as in art, of drawing the line somewhere.

Huston Smith

Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees.

Marcel Proust

I'm quite a softy, yes. I have a blank spot with respect to visual art, but I have perhaps a compensating hypersensitivity to poetry and music.

Richard Dawkins

If what you want to do is make good art, decide what's good and try to imitate it.

Robert Pinsky

I'm not one who divides music, dance or art into various categories. Either something works, or it doesn't.

Twyla Tharp

El hombre que sabe debe desempeñar una función. El que no sabe, no puede atribuirse una a sí mismo; sólo puede tratar de hacerlo.

Aprender a aprender

Beauty is nature’s way of acting at a distance.

The Art Instinct: Beauty, Pleasure, and Human Evolution

Young men think old men are fools, but old men know young men are fools.

All Fools

To advocate irrationality is to advocate that which is destructive to human life.

Atheism: The Case Against God

Eu temia que qualquer mínimo ruído atraísse o pior, conjurasse do próprio breu branco um horror incomensurável.

Asfixia

I felt as though I were snorting cocaine, or rappelling down a cliffside, or cliffsurfing off a cliff of pure cocaine.

The Ask

For me art and chess are closely related, both are forms in which the self finds beauty and expression.

Vladimir Kramnik

Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.

Homeland and Other Stories

Those who are wise won't be busy, and those who are too busy can't be wise.

The Importance Of Living

There is something in the nature of tea that leads us into a world of quiet contemplation of life.

The Importance Of Living

Justice and injustice indeed begins and ends with the self.

Islam: The Concept of Religion and The Foundation of Ethics and Morality

Before Venus, censorious; before Mars, timid.

Just and Unjust Wars: A Moral Argument With Historical Illustrations