Action Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

When life has been well spent, age is a loss of what it can well spare,--muscular strength, organic instincts, gross bulk, and works that…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Gross and obscure natures, however decorated, seem impure shambles; but character gives splendor to youth, and awe to wrinkled skin and gray hairs.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Do you suppose it's so much easier to make conversation with someone you already know well than with someone you don't know at all…

— David Foster Wallace

This is what we've been waiting for: finally, an unprecedented critical analysis of the history of Dutch design. Mienke Simon Thomas's Dutch Design is…

— Wim Crouwel

“This is an extremely difficult matter for modern readers of the gospels to grasp, but Luke never meant for his story about Jesus's birth…

— Reza Aslan

I do not mean to say that such institutions act unilaterally on psychic life, or that they determine certain psychic outcomes. Rather, they exploit…

— Judith Butler

Civility is not not saying negative or harsh things. It is not the absence of critical analysis. It is the manner in which we…

— Richard Dreyfuss

“If critical analysis of repression is itself inseparable from repression, then surely to think with any efficacy has to be think in some distinctly…

— Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

“For those scientists who take it seriously, Darwinian evolution has functioned more as a philosophical belief system than as a testable scientific hypothesis. This…

— James A. Shapiro

I read letters and journal entries by [Georgia] O'Keeffe (which were infinitely more useful than any critical analysis of her work).

— Liza Campbell

Congressman Bridenstine's legislative record and his own testimony during his nomination hearing show that he rejects NASA's role in earth science, adopts industry perspectives…

— Brian Schatz

“A person must find the courage to live a complete and full life. We learn to live when we stop being afraid and by…

— Kilroy J. Oldster