Quotes of: Ralph-waldo-emerson Keyword

Society does not consist of individuals, but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.

Grundrisse: Foundations of the Critique of Political Economy

A tax-supported, compulsory educational system is the complete model of the totalitarian state.

The God of the Machine

Seedy wasn't a fair description for the place, because seeds imply eventual regrowth and renewal.

Ghost Story

We forgive the crimes of individuals, but not their participation in a collective crime.

The Guermantes Way

We have heard the chimes at midnight, Master Shallow

Henry IV, Part 2

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia

the deepest subjective experiences are also the most universal, because through them one reaches the universal source of life.

On the Heights of Despair

How good would it be if one could die by throwing oneself into an infinite void.

On the Heights of Despair

There are all kinds of psychological disorders in the West that don't exist in Asia.

Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother

Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.

The Book of Rites

the threat of Jewish competition was taken away, but so were the Jewish customers

The Book Thief

Non che non creda in Dio. Ci credo. Solo non sono sicura di credere nel Paradiso, almeno non quanto credo nella biblioteca pubblica.

The Ballad of Lucy Whipple

Why may we not be in the universe, as our dogs and cats are in our drawingrooms and libraries?

The Correspondence of William James: 1885-1889

Choosing an attitude of faith will release peace out of your spirit and into your soul.

Joyce Meyer

You hit a certain age, and you haven't died yet, and you become an elder statesman. I think I get a lot of applause because I'm not keeling over.

Alan Arkin

And almost every one, when age, Disease, or sorrows strike him, Inclines to think there is a God, Or something very like him.

Arthur Hugh Clough

There is a certain age at which a child looks at you in all earnestness and delivers a long, pleased speech in all the true inflections of spoken English, but with not one recognizable syllable.

Annie Dillard

I was put under contract. A major studio. I got nominated for an Academy Award. Isn't that ridiculous? I mean, at the age of 18!

Angela Lansbury

In every age poets and social reformers have tried to stimulate the people of their own time to a nobler life by enchanting stories of the virtues of the heroes of old.

Alfred Marshall

I became married at a young age and had two daughters and divorced at 26. I had to go on welfare to make ends meet. I had no way to support myself.

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Some say that the age of chivalry is past, that the spirit of romance is dead. The age of chivalry is never past, so long as there is a wrong left unredressed on earth.

Charles Kingsley