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Creatures Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- There is nothing capricious in nature and the implanting of a desire indicates that its gratification is in the constitution of the creature that feel…
- Every individual strives to grow and exclude, to the extremities of the universe, and to impose the law of its being on every other creature.
- Exaggeration is in the course of things. Nature sends no creature, no man into the world, without adding a small excess of his proper quality.…
- By his machines man can dive and remain under water like a shark; can fly like a hawk in the air; can see atoms like…
- If a man carefully examine his thoughts he will be surprised to find how much he lives in the future. His well-being is always ahead.…
More Creatures Quotes
- I love movies with spectacle but spectacle can be a performance, it doesn't have to be a creature. — J. J. Abrams
- If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men… — Francis of Assisi
- None of God's Creatures absolutely consider'd are in their own Nature Contemptible; the meanest Fly, the poorest Insect has its Use and… — Mary Astell
- Everyone likes birds. What wild creature is more accessible to our eyes and ears, as close to us and everyone in the… — David Attenborough
- I mean, it is an extraordinary thing that a large proportion of your country and my country, of the citizens, never see… — David Attenborough
- Cameramen are among the most extraordinarily able and competent people I know. They have to have an insight into natural history that… — David Attenborough
- Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has… — Marcus Aurelius
- God's first creature, which was light. — Francis Bacon
- As the births of living creatures are at first ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time. — Francis Bacon
- I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few,… — Abigail Adams
- To be sure, the response of faith to revelation, which God grants to the creature he chooses and moves with his love,… — Hans Urs von Balthasar
- A man is a poor creature compared to a woman. — Honore de Balzac