Quotes of: Ralph-waldo-emerson Keyword

Evolution is not a genetically controlled distortion of one adult form into another; it is a genetically controlled alteration in a developmental program.

The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution

It is interesting to wonder whether taxonomists of the future may regret the way our generation messed around with genomes.

The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution

This is one of the goals of the Jewish way of living: to experience commonplace deeds as spiritual adventures, to feel the hidden love and wisdom in all things.

God in Search of Man: A Philosophy of Judaism

For there is no friend like a sister In calm or stormy weather; To cheer one on the tedious way, To fetch one if one goes astray, To lift one if one totters down, To strengthen whilst one stands

Goblin Market and Other Poems

A jealous lover of human liberty, and deeming it the absolute condition of all that we admire and respect in humanity, I reverse the phrase of Voltaire, and say that, if God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish him.

God and the State

A transference neurosis corresponds to a conflict between ego and , a corresponds to that between between ego and super-ego, and a psychosis to that between ego and outer world.

General Psychological Theory

The so-called sensitivity of neurotics develops along with their egotism; they cannot bear for other people to flaunt the sufferings with which they are increasingly preoccupied themselves.

The Guermantes Way

There is no avoiding the fact that we live at the mercy of our ideas This is never more true than with our ideas about God.

Hearing God: Developing a Conversational Relationship with God

And the truth must finally lie in that which every oppressed individual feels within himself but hasn't the courage to express

Beyond Psychology: Letters and Journals, 1934-1939

The important thing to remember about mathematics is not to be frightened

The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design

She makes life over, he realized. She controls life, whereas I just sit on my can and let it happen to me.

Confessions of a Crap Artist

Striving for perfection can get in the way during the early stages of the creative process.

Creative Confidence: Unleashing the Creative Potential Within Us All

I think one of the things that language poets are very involved with is getting away from conventional ideas of beauty, because those ideas contain a certain attitude toward women, certain attitudes toward sex, certain attitudes toward race, etc.

Diane Wakoski

Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amaze...

William James

I used to watch the world as if it was a performance and I would realize that certain things that people did moved me, and certain things didn't move me, and I tried to analyze, even at that age, six and seven and eight, why I was moved by certain th...

Alan Arkin

Romance isn't measured by how viral your proposal goes. The Internet age may try to sell you something different, but don't ever forget that viral is closely associated with sickness - so don't ever make being viral your goal.

Ann Voskamp

A great many things have been pronounced untrue and absurd, and even impossible, by the highest authorities in the age in which they lived, which have afterwards, and, indeed, within a very short period, been found to be both possible and true.

Catherine Crowe

There's no way to approach anything in an objective way. We're completely subjective; our view of the world is completely controlled by who we are as human beings, as men or women, by our age, our history, our profession, by the state of the world.

Charlie Kaufman

I was the first to advocate the Web. But I am very troubled by this thing that every kid must have a laptop computer. The kids are totally in the computer age. There's a whole new brain operation that's being moulded by the computer.

Camille Paglia

Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.

Dale Carnegie

If we are strong, and have faith in life and its richness of surprises, and hold the rudder steadily in our hands. I am sure we will sail into quiet and pleasent waters for our old age.

Freya Stark