"Philosophically considered, the universe is composed of Nature……" — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Philosophically considered, the universe is composed of Nature and the Soul."
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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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Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
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The Passion narratives are the first pieces of the Gospels that were composed as a unity.
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Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is…
— Walter Benjamin
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The mental body, like the astral, varies much in different people; it is composed of coarser or of finer matter,…
— Annie Besant
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Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
— Samuel Butler
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Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to…
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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Life processes take place in an aqueous medium. All organisms are composed mostly of water, whether they dwell in the…
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If you have a glass full of liquid you can discourse forever on its qualities, discuss whether it is cold,…
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The superior man is satisfied and composed; the mean man is always full of distress.
— Confucius
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Nor was civil society founded merely to preserve the lives of its members; but that they might live well: for…
— Aristotle
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Society is composed of two great classes, those that have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite…
— Nicolas Chamfort
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