There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The very essence of rationalism is that it assumes that the reason is the highest faculty in man and the lord of… — Lyman Abbott Copy Share Image
I recognize the delivery of grace to my day, even if I cannot identify a specific return address. — Mary Anne Radmacher Copy Share Image
Children are born innocent. Before they are domesticated they live in the moment, love without fear, and don't even think about the… — Miguel Angel Ruiz Copy Share Image
“Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
“[Transcendentalism maintains] that man has ideas, that come not through the five sense, or the powers of reasoning; but are either the… — Charles Mayo Ellis Copy Share Image
All this cut-price transcendentalism does not prevent California from being a startlingly physical state. This becomes most obvious where Los Angeles saunters… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
The philanthropists inquire whether Transcendentalism does not mean sloth: they had as lief hear that their friend is dead, as that he… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The essence of humanity's spiritual dilemma is that we evolved genetically to accept one truth and discovered another. Is there a way… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
“Let me admonish you, first of all, to go alone; to refuse the good models, even those most sacred in the imagination… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The residue of religion in my work appears as a modified transcendentalism, and the positivist scientific side of my thought appears as… — Louis Dudek Copy Share Image
We should not let our response to the people who disagree with us be dictated by what they say about us or… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
Like bones to the human body, the axle to the wheel, the wing to the bird, and the air to the wing,… — Jose Marti Copy Share Image
“Each form is inadequate, like a graft to be rejected by its intractable and unrelenting host and thus can only serve a… — Ashim Shanker Copy Share Image
I am, indeed, an absolute materialist so far as actual belief goes; with not a shred of credence in any form of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“And while we may never be able to wrap our minds around the thing itself, it is by the power of a… — Casey Fisher Copy Share Image
“It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after your own;… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Every year the hatchlings wake in the swaying branches, in the silver baskets, and love the world. Is it necessary to say… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
“What is a course of history, or philosophy, or poetry, no matter how well selected, or the best society, or the most… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image