"A man must consider what a rich realm……" — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"A man must consider what a rich realm he abdicates when he becomes a conformist."
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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2,823 Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Strong men greet war, tempest, hard times. They wish, as Pindar said, to tread the floors of hell, with necessities…
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If I should go out of church whenever I hear a false sentiment, I could never stay there five minutes.
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To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.
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To this military attitude of the soul we give the name of Heroism... It is a self-trust which slights the…
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There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers. If you have not…
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Extremes meet, and there is no better example than the naughtiness of humility.
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Science is nothing but the finding of analogy, identity, in the most remote parts.
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The possibility of interpretation lies in the identity of the observer with the observed. Each material thing has its celestial…
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One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it is the…
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Every promise of the soul has innumerable fulfillments; each of its joys ripens into a new want.
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The foolish man wonders at the unusual, but the wise man at the usual.
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A little praise goes a great ways.
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Our intellect is not the most subtle, the most powerful, the most appropriate, instrument for revealing the truth. It is…
— Marcel Proust
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All wars come to an end, at least temporarily. But the authority acquired by the state hangs on; political power…
— Frank Chodorov
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The State acquires power... and because of its insatiable lust for power it is incapable of giving up any of…
— Frank Chodorov
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Power abdicates only under stress of counter-power.
— Martin Buber
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Machines are admirable and tyrannize only with the user's consent. Where, then, is the enemy? Not where the machine gives…
— Jacques Barzun
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If man--if each one of us--abdicates his responsibilities with regard to values; if each one of us limits himself to…
— Jacques Ellul
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The wise man, the sage, is hostile to the new. Disabused, he abdicates: that is his form of protest.
— Emile M. Cioran
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Every man builds his world in his own image; he has the power to choose, but no power to escape…
— Ayn Rand
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Power abdicates only under the stress of counter-power.
— Martin Buber
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