Quotes of: Ralph-waldo-emerson Keyword

Even more than the time when she gave birth, a mother feels her greatest joy when she hears others refer to her son as a wise learned one.

Thirukkural

Thinking must never submit itself, neither to a dogma, nor to a party, nor to a passion, nor to an interest, nor to a preconceived idea, nor to whatever it may be, if not to facts themselves, because, for it, to submit would be to cease to be.

Oeuvres

Plato worried that philosophical writing would take the place of living conversations for which, in philosophy, there is no substitute.

Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away

This is the pedagogical paradox. The person and the teacher is required precisely because the knowledge itself is nontransferable from teacher to student.

Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away

What is it precisely, that they are doing when they are doing science. Are they refining their instruments for observation or discovering new aspects of reality?

Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away

It is easy for us to criticize the prejudices of our grandfathers, from which our fathers freed themselves. It is more difficult to search for prejudices among the beliefs and values we hold.

Practical Ethics

To give preference to the life of a being simply because that being is a member of our species would put us in the same position as racists who give preference to those who are members of their race.

Practical Ethics

Civilization is only possible for deeply unpleasant animals. It is only an ape that can be truly civilized.

The Philosopher and the Wolf: Lessons from the Wild on Love, Death, and Happiness

The only Thought which Philosophy brings with it to the contemplation of History, is the simple conception of Reason; that Reason is the Sovereign of the World; that the history of the world, therefore, presents us with a rational process.

The Philosophy of History

It is a thing of no great difficulty to raise objections against another man's oration, it is a very easy matter; but to produce a better in it's place is a work extremely troublesome.

Parallel Lives

The phenomenological world is not the bringing to explicit expression of a pre-existing being, but the laying down of being. Philosophy is not the reflection of a pre-existing truth, but, like art, the act of bringing truth into being.

Phenomenology of Perception

[A] great deal of what we believe we do not know firsthand; instead we have faith in the knowledge of specialists.

Reason, Faith, and Revolution: Reflections on the God Debate

But compassion isn't about solutions. It's about giving all the love that you've got.

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

The great source of both the misery and disorders of human life, seems to arise from over-rating the difference between one permanent situation and another...

The Theory of Moral Sentiments

But, with time, one has encountered many of the monsters, and one is increasingly less terrified of those still to be met.

An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness

He thought of women in terms of breasts, not minds, and it always seemed to irritate him that most women had both.

An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness

We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born.

Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder

We feed it [Resistance] with power by our fear of it. Master that fear and we conquer Resistance.

The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles

She could see that to lose a sibling was hard: it could only seem unnatural:out of time, out of order, a vicious re-run of your own departure into nothingness.

Worst Fears

Most gay men are as sexist in their thinking as are heterosexuals. Their patriarchal thinking leads them to construct paradigms of desirable sexual behaviour that is similar to that of patriarchal straight men.

The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love

While contemporary non-Evangelicals have virtually reduced faith to 'courageous ignorance,' Evangelicals have hardly been faithful in defending God's objective communication of truth.

Word of God and the Mind of Man