Best Amos Bronson Alcott Quotations
- Man is a living lie--a bitter jest Upon himself--a conscious grain of sand Lost in a desert of unconsciousness. Bitter
- In the ardor of his enthusiasm, a youth set forth in quest of a man of whom he might take counsel as to his future,… Ardor
- The mind is fast emancipating itself from the dominion of man and of matter. It has let loose fearful forces on the world. Dominion
- Modesty, that perennial flower planted instinctively in the human breast, blooms therein only as continence guards and virtue keeps. Blooms
- Pity the mother who assumes the name without being all this implies! All
- A chaste generation would restore Paradise. Chaste
- The passions refuse to be organized on a basis of their own; hostile to personal freedom and one another, they rush precipitately into anarchy and… Anarchy
- Hold fast, therefore, O circular philosopher, to thy centre, and drive the globe along its orbit by the momentum of thy thought. Along
- An author who sets his reader on sounding the depths of his own thoughts serves him best. Author
- Children are illuminated text-books, breviaries of doctrine, living bodies of divinity, open always and inviting their elders to peruse the characters inscribed on the lovely… Bodies
- A state, a community, caring first for all its children, providing amply for their spiritual as for their temporal well-being, has organized the primitive Eden. All
- Science has grown frightfully audacious in these days -- swift-footed, ponderous, careering over her iron ways with unslacking pace. This rampant dragon, on which I… Ample
- Without a mythology, faith is impersonal and heartless. Faith
- Every dogma embodies some shade of truth to give it seeming currency. Currency
- The books that charmed us in youth recall the delight ever afterwards; we are hardly persuaded there are any like them, any deserving our equal… Affection
- Ideas first and last: yet it is not till these are formulated and utilized that the devotees of the common sense discern their value and… Advantage
- Ourselves are cosmic and capacious beyond conjecture, and to experience some notion of the planetary perspective is the richest income from travelling. It takes all… All
- Man must have some recognized stake in society and affairs to knit him lovingly to his kind, or he is wont to revenge himself for… Affair
- A happy childhood is the pledge of a ripe manhood. Childhood
- A candid spirit is mightier than the most persistent dogmatism. Candid
- Truth is inclusive of all the virtues, is older than sects and schools, and, like charity, more ancient than mankind. All
- The fable runs that the gods mix our pains and pleasure in one cup, and thus mingle for us the adulterate immortality which we alone… Adulterate
- Memory marks the horizon of our consciousness, imagination its zenith. Consciousness
- A check on itself, evil subserves the economies of good, as it were a condiment to give relish to good. Check
- The history of religions, of which Christianity is a transcendent element, awaits the deepest study. It requires Bibles to free from Bibles. Comparative theology is… Awaits
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