Quotes of: Ralph-waldo-emerson Keyword

See, Heaven is not someplace on a disc in the sky floating around, it's right here amongst us.

Sylvia Browne

The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our separate ways, I to die, and you to live. Which of these two is better only God knows.

Socrates

One should never do wrong in return, nor mistreat any man, no matter how one has been mistreated by him.

Socrates

wealth does not bring goodness, but goodness brings wealth and every other blessing, both to the individual and to the state

Socrates

My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher.

Socrates

Poetry is a sort of truancy, a dream within the dream of life, a wild flower planted among our wheat.

Michael Oakeshott

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.

Marcel Proust

There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.

Marcel Proust

It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying.

Marcel Proust

The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.

Marcel Proust

People can have many different kinds of pleasure. The real one is that for which they will forsake the others.

Marcel Proust

Lies are essential to humanity. They are perhaps as important as the pursuit of pleasure and moreover are dictated by that pursuit.

Marcel Proust

We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes.

Marcel Proust

The charms of the passing woman are generally in direct proportion to the swiftness of her passing.

Marcel Proust

And the actual achievements of biology are explanations in terms of mechanisms founded on physics and chemistry, which is not the same thing as explanations in terms of physics and chemistry.

Michael Polanyi

Of course language manifests a belief only if we use its words with the implied acceptance of their appositeness.

Michael Polanyi

A 'sadist' of her kind is an artist in evil, which a wholly wicked person could not be...

Marcel Proust

My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.

Marcel Proust

It is the tragedy of other people that they are merely showcases for the very perishable collections of one's own mind.

Marcel Proust

'Culture' is a finite segment of the meaningless infinity of the world process, a segment on which human beings confer meaning and significance.

Max Weber

One can say that three pre-eminent qualities are decisive for the politician: passion, a feeling of responsibility, and a sense of proportion.

Max Weber