"If the tongue had not been framed for……" — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest."
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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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More Articulation Quotes
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Communication does not depend on syntax, or eloquence, or rhetoric, or articulation but on the emotional context in which the…
— Edwin H Friedman
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I am so deaf I am debarred from hearing all the time articulation and have to depend on the judgment…
— Thomas A. Edison
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I consider space to be a material. The articulation of space has come to take precedence over other concerns. I…
— Richard Serra
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When shopping was still connected to the street it was also an intensification and articulation of the street. Now it…
— Rem Koolhaas
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A TWO-DIMENSIONAL SURFACE WITHOUT ANY ARTICULATION IS A DEAD EXPERIENCE
— John Baldessari
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The poet cannot invent new words every time, of course. He uses the words of the tribe. But the handling…
— Eugene Ionesco
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Gary Snyder's The Practice of the Wild is an exquisite, far-sighted articulation of what freedom, wildness, goodness, and grace mean,…
— Gretel Ehrlich
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Social values in general are incrementally variable: neither safety, diversity, rational articulation, nor morality is categorically a good thing to…
— Thomas Sowell
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The theoretical recognition of the split-space of enunciation may open the way to conceptualising an international culture, based not on…
— Unknown Author
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The kiss is a wordless articulation of desire whose object lies in the future, and somewhat to the south.
— Lance Morrow
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Uncovering secrets is apocalyptic in the simple sense (the Greek root means ‘an uncovering’). In this case, it lifts the…
— Lewis Hyde
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I did a comparison of a school of architects known as the New York Five. I compared their articulation of…
— Parker Stevenson
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