Quotes of: Ralph-waldo-emerson Keyword

27. Of all the means which are procured by wisdom to ensure happiness throughout the whole of life, by far the most important is the acquisition of firends.

Principal Doctrines

Atheism or similar charges was not unusual among intellectuals, nor condemned by the masses. The prize-winning plays of were not merely atheist, but made fun of the gods and their prophets and oracles.

Phaedo

Only a philosopher's mind grows wings, since its memory always keeps it as close as possible to those realities by being close to which the gods are divine.

Phaedrus

Speech is not a means in the service of an external end. It contains its own rule of usage, ethics, and view of the world, as a gesture sometimes bears the whole truth about a man.

Phenomenology of Perception

Atheism is a way of humility. It's to think oneself to be an animal, as we are actually and to allow oneself to become human.

Presentations de La Philosophie

Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it.

A Pluralistic Universe

Nonetheless, it still remains true that as a set of cognitive beliefs, religious doctrines constitute a speculative hypothesis of an extremely low order of probability.

The Quest for Being

...much theological discussion is wasted, not because the words used have no possible meaning, but because the people who use them don't mean anything by them.

The Transformation of Man

Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself.

Time Regained

He was the most ordinary man in all the world, and yet in her memory he'd become luminous, like the prince in a fairy tale.

Torch

Be fearless enough to let love transform you.

Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar

Remember, the only thing to fear is Fear, and - well, don't even fear Fear, for he's a cowardly chap at the best, who will run if you show a brave front.

Thought Vibration

to succeed at anything, you must want it very much. Desire must be in evidence in order to attract

Thought Vibration or the Law of Attraction in the Thought World

What is most important is to cease legislating for all lives what is liveable only for some, and similarly, to refrain from proscribing for all lives what is unlivable for some.

Undoing Gender

It has been said of dreams that they are a 'controlled psychosis,' or, put another way, a psychosis is a dream breaking through during waking hours.

VALIS

Fear can make you do more wrong than hate or jealousy... fear makes you always, always hold something back.

VALIS

The mentally disturbed do not employ the Principle of Scientific Parsimony: the most simple theory to explain a given set of facts. They shoot for the baroque.

VALIS

People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.

The Wealth of Nations

Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.

The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy

A beloved daughter who now spent holidays alone.

Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

I put her burnt bones into my mouth and swallowed them whole.

Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail