Quotes of: Ralph-waldo-emerson Keyword

It is easier to discover a deficiency in individuals, in states, and in Providence, than to see their real import and value.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Propounding peace and love without practical or institutional engagement is delusion, not virtue.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

To be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Every superior personality, and every superior performance, has, for the average of mankind, something mysterious.

Georg Simmel

In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence.

Henry Van Dyke

I think paranoia can be instructive in the right doses. Paranoia is a skill.

John Shirley

Community begins in mystery and ends in administration. Leaders move away from people and into paper.

Jean Vanier

We are not called by God to do extraordinary things, but to do ordinary things with extraordinary love.

Jean Vanier

A symphony is a stage play with the parts written for instruments instead of for actors.

Colin Wilson

I think sometimes people really require the satisfaction of closure.

Diablo Cody

The first problem of the media is posed by what does not get translated, or even published in the dominant political languages.

Jacques Derrida

Keeping a guy in prison costs 50,000 bucks a year. Executing one costs a couple million.

John Grisham

We have to give value to authority. We have to give value to office, being in office, holding office.

James Hillman

Historically, terrorism falls in a category different from crimes that concern a criminal court judge.

Jurgen Habermas

A habitual disuse of physical forces totally destroys the moral; and men lose at once the power of protecting themselves, and of discerning the cause of their oppression.

Joel Barlow

A woman who does not become the slave of just one man becomes the slave of all men.

Jose Bergamin

Validation comes to us in two ways: through trials we overcome, and through the words of older men.

John Eldredge

O Polly, you might have toyed and kissed, by keeping men off, you keep them on.

John Gay

I attribute the little I know to my not having been ashamed to ask for information, and to my rule of conversing with all descriptions of men on those topics that form their own peculiar professions and pursuits.

John Locke

For this is the journey that men and women make, to find themselves. If they fail in this, it doesn't matter much else what they find.

James A. Michener

No man who knows aught, can be so stupid to deny that all men naturally were born free.

John Milton