"The powers of the Soul are commensurate with…" — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The powers of the Soul are commensurate with its needs."
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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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The great object of Education should be commensurate with the object of life. It should be a moral one; to…
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Science corrects the old creeds, sweeps away, with every new perception, our infantile catechisms, and necessitates a faith commensurate with…
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Why do they [Americans] quarrel, why do they hate Negroes, Indians, even Germans, why do they not have science and…
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We have become convinced that it is better to avoid such symbolic disguisings of the truth in what we tell…
— Sigmund Freud
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The hole and the patch should be commensurate.
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The psyche of the individual is commensurate with the totality of creative energy. This requires a most radical revision of…
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