"The secret of the world is the tie……" — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The secret of the world is the tie between person and event. Person makes event and event person."
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2,824 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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The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be…
— Hannah Arendt
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Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a…
— Gaston Bachelard
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All pictures are unnatural. All pictures are sad because they're about dead people. Paintings you don't think of in a…
— David Bailey
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It's true that I don't rearrange that much in the fiction, but I feel if you change even one name…
— Nicholson Baker
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The face of Garbo is an Idea, that of Hepburn an Event.
— Ethel Barrymore
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'Fahrenheit 9/11' is astounding. Not so much as a film - although it is cunning and moving - but as…
— John Berger
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A drawing is an autobiographical record of one's discovery of an event - either seen, remembered or imagined. A 'finished'…
— John Berger
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'Easter' is a movable event, calculated by the relative positions of sun and moon, an impossible way of fixing year…
— Annie Besant
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The world of crime is a last refuge of the authentic, uncorrupted, spontaneous event.
— Daniel J. Boorstin
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A teacher is never too smart to learn from his pupils. But while runners differ, basic principles never change. So…
— Bill Bowerman
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Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation.
— Charlotte Bronte
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In our view, successful reform is not an event. It is a sustainable process that will build on its own…
— Abdallah II
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