Quotes of: Ralph-waldo-emerson Keyword

I am likely to be wiser than he to this small, extent, that I do not think I know what I do not know.

The Apology

Reasoning with a drunkard is like Going under water with a torch to seek for a drowning man.

Holy Kural - Thirukkural in Tamil with English Translations

If people scrutinize their own faults as they do the faults of others,Mankind will be freed of all evil.

Holy Kural - Thirukkural in Tamil with English Translations

Tu stii ca nu-i nici o fericire sa vezi ce-i inlauntrul omului, pentru ca nici acolo, nici in afara lui lucrurile nu sunt asezate o data pentru totdeauna si se schimba pana sa apuci sa spui ce si cum.

Hotel Universal

I shouted into the phone, but there was no reply. Silence floated up from the receiver like smoke from the mouth of a gun.

Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

(Can you understand your own dreams, which arise with mushrooms' rank richness in the night-forests within your skull?)

The Ice-Shirt

Only a rebuke that 'has something in it' will sting, will have the power to stir our feelings, not the other sort, as we know.

The Interpretation of Dreams

How can anyone love someone who is less than a full person, unless love itself is domination per se?

Intercourse

Being stigmatied by sex is being marked by its meaning in a human life of loneliness and imperfection, where some pain is indelible.

Intercourse

Words and magic were in the beginning one and the same thing, and even today words retain much of their magical power.

Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis

The International Institute of Islamic Thought and Civilization (ISTAC)... to establish a superior library reflecting the religious and intellectual traditions both of the Islamic and Western civilizations.

Islam and Secularism

We don't believe something by merely saying we believe it, or even when we believe that we believe it. We believe something when we act as if it were true.

Renovation of the Heart

DNA neither cares nor knows. DNA just is. And we dance to its music.

River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life

Changing how we see images is clearly one way to change the world.

Reel to Real: Race, Sex, and Class at the Movies

Death cannot be experienced either by the dead or the living.

Rising Up and Rising Down: Some Thoughts on Violence, Freedom and Urgent Means

If a painter, then, paints a picture of an ideally beautiful man, complete to the last detail, is he any the worse painter because he cannot show that such a man could really exist?

The Republic

Either we shall find what it is we are seeking or at least we shall free ourselves from the persuasion that we know what we do not know.

The Republic

One of the most subversive institutions in the United States is the public library..

Rock My Soul: Black People and Self-Esteem

Çoğu insan Kafka'nın ihtiyarına benzer. Umut ederler ama yüreklerinin sesini, itkisini dinleme ve ona göre davranma yetisinden yoksundurlar; bürokratlar onlara yeşil ışık yakmadığı sürece beklerler de beklerler.

The Revolution of Hope: Toward a Humanized Technology

When humans were young, they were pushed around in strollers. When they were old, they were pushed around in wheelchairs. In between, they were just pushed around.

Skinny Legs and All

It is my intent to beget a good understanding between the chymists and the mechanical philosophers who have hitherto been too little acquainted with one another's learning.

The Sceptical Chymist