Quotes of: Ralph-waldo-emerson Keyword

El Sufismo es sistematizado sólo por períodos transitorios o limitados; él es principalmente instrumental, no para disfrute o exposición.

Neglected Aspects of Sufi Study

Through travel I first became aware of the outside world; it was through travel that I found my own introspective way into becoming a part of it.

One Writer's Beginnings

Me alimento de música y de agua negra. Soy tu niña calcinada por un sueño implacable.

Obras Completas

Repression by brute force is always a confession of the inability to make use of the better weapons of the intellect—better because they alone give promise of final success.

Liberalism

A youth is to be regarded with respect. How do we know that his future will not be equal to our present?

The Life and Wisdom of Confucius

I wiped my jaw with a forearm, half imagining that I could still feel the product of the quickie out back of the bar.

Lilith

I observe to the letter all laws that make sense but combat those that are obsolete or absurd.

Listen, Little Man!

God did not, as the Bible says, make man in His image; on the contrary man, as I have shown in , made God in his image.

Lectures on the Essence of Religion

To theology, ... only what it holds sacred is true, whereas to philosophy, only what holds true is sacred.

Lectures on the Essence of Religion

That was our friendship: equal parts irritation and cooperation.

Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children

If we wish to foresee the future of mathematics, our proper course is to study the history and present condition of the science.

Science and Method

Man is not a beast of burden, and the Sabbath is not for the purpose of enhancing the efficiency of his work.

The Sabbath: Its Meaning for Modern Man

Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.

Shadows on the Rock

One does not advance when one walks toward no goal, or - which is the same thing - when his goal is infinity.

On Suicide: A Study in Sociology

I looked at all the people, feeling sorry for them. They were still subordinate to clock and calendar. Absolved of that, I stood becalmed.

Somewhere in Time

Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.

In Search of Lost Time

... until it had acquired the strength to create in my mind a fresh example of absolute, unproductive beauty...

Swann's Way

... it was with an unusual intensity of pleasure, a pleasure destined to have a lasting effect upon his character and conduct...

Swann's Way

... it had arrested for all eternity the moment which it had been trying to make pass more quickly.

Swann's Way

In the V-shaped opening of her crape bodice Mlle. Vinteuil felt the sting of her friend's sudden kiss;...

Swann's Way

It was not evil that gave her the idea of pleasure, that seemed to her attractive; it was pleasure, rather, that seemed evil.

Swann's Way