"No power of genius has ever yet had……" — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"No power of genius has ever yet had the smallest success in explaining existence. The perfect enigma remains."
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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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Society bristles with enigmas which look hard to solve. It is a perfect maze of intrigue.
— Honore de Balzac
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We shall never resolve the enigma of the relation between the negative foundations of greatness and that greatness itself.
— Jean Baudrillard
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Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.
— Winston Churchill
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A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.
— Diane Arbus
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I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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With the strength of his spiritual sight and insight the distance, and as it were the space, around man continually…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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If knowing answers to life's questions is absolutely necessary to you, then forget the journey. You will never make it,…
— Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon
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By keenly confronting the enigmas that surround us, and by considering and analyzing the observations that I had made, I…
— M.C. Escher
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The definitive resolution of the UFO enigma will not come about unless and until the problem is subjected to open…
— Peter A. Sturrock
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It may well be doubted whether human ingenuity can construct an enigma... which human ingenuity may not, by proper application,…
— Edgar Allan Poe
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It has been my firm belief, based on my research and investigations over the past half century, that UFOs and…
— George Fawcett
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The abstraction, ostensibly, is simply for me the penetration of something that is more profound in many ways than rigidity…
— Unknown Author
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