Quotes of: Ralph-waldo-emerson Keyword

A common man marvels at uncommon things. A wise man marvels at the commonplace.

Confucius

I am, as they say, the classic starving artist.

Cheryl Strayed

You've earned the right to grow. You're going to have to carry the water yourself.

Cheryl Strayed

Advertising in the past has been predicated on a mass market and a captive audience.

Howard Rheingold

A phone tree isn't an ancient form of political organizing, but you have to call every person.

Howard Rheingold

Molecular biology has routinely taken problematic things under its wing without altering core ideas.

Ian Hacking

Right from the very beginning, I knew I wanted to write palpably Scottish fiction.

Ian Rankin

In the first place, Descartes stands for the most explicit and uncompromising dualism between mind and matter.

James Mark Baldwin

There is no gender identity behind the expressions of gender... identity is performatively constituted by the very 'expressions' that are said to be its results.

Judith Butler

There is no such thing as emotional incompatibility. There are only misunderstandings and mistakes which can easily be set right if we have the will to do so.

Dada Vaswani

By definition, sacred beings are separated beings. That which characterizes them is that there is a break of continuity between them and the profane beings.

Emile Durkheim

The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers.

Erich Fromm

Scientists are very much entangled in their culture and this culture is not pristine, untouched by other cultures and practices.

Bruno Latour

India is a reservoir of alternative interpretations of what the global is, and these ways of viewing the world need to be exposed.

Bruno Latour

I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them.

Baruch Spinoza

I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.

Baruch Spinoza

Nes juk galų gale gyvenimas yra ne tai, ką mes darome, o tik laukimas kažko kito, ir mirtis yra tai, kuo galime be dvejonių pasikliauti.

Bram Stoker

People who say, 'Let the chips fall where they may,' usually figure they will not be hit by a chip.

Bernard Williams

What a country needs to do is be fair to all its citizens - whether people are of a different ethnicity or gender.

Chinua Achebe

You cannot live a nonviolent life as long as you are consuming violence. Please consider going vegan.

Gary L. Francione

Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between two rights.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel