"I can reason down or deny everything, except……" — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"I can reason down or deny everything, except this perpetual Belly: feed he must and will, and I cannot make him respectable."
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2,823 Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson has 2,823 quotes on this site.
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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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Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if…
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Rebellions of the belly are the worst.
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I think we all have a lot of darkness in our bellies. As an actor, the challenge of tapping into…
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A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread.
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Proletarian language is dictated by hunger. The poor chew words to fill their bellies.
— Theodor Adorno
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I am into belly dancing. I used to only hang with comics. Now I have friends who are dancers, and…
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I never could stand losing. Second place didn't interest me. I had a fire in my belly.
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