"There are no fixtures in nature. The universe……" — Ralph Waldo Emerson

"There are no fixtures in nature. The universe is fluid and volatile. Permanence is but a word of degrees."

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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…
If I should go out of church whenever I hear a false sentiment, I could never stay there five minutes.
To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.
To this military attitude of the soul we give the name of Heroism... It is a self-trust which slights the…
There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers. If you have not…
Extremes meet, and there is no better example than the naughtiness of humility.
Science is nothing but the finding of analogy, identity, in the most remote parts.
The possibility of interpretation lies in the identity of the observer with the observed. Each material thing has its celestial…
One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it is the…
Every promise of the soul has innumerable fulfillments; each of its joys ripens into a new want.
The foolish man wonders at the unusual, but the wise man at the usual.
A little praise goes a great ways.

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Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right… — Aristotle
It takes more than capital to swing business. You've got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by… — Isaac Asimov
Confronting a stadium audience, you can't see the whites of their eyes. It's just an amorphous mass of noise and,… — Rowan Atkinson
Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher… — Jane Austen
Some things get written more quickly than others, but I can't really measure degrees of difficulty. — Paul Auster
It will be readily admitted, that a degree conferred by an university, ought to be a pledge to the public… — Charles Babbage
I'm not only a lawyer, I have a post doctorate degree in federal tax law from William and Mary. I… — Michele Bachmann
Unintelligent persons are like weeds that thrive in good ground; they love to be amused in proportion to the degree… — Honore de Balzac
There is a method in man's wickedness; it grows up by degrees. — Francis Beaumont
Laziness. Unwarranted repose of manner in a person of low degree. — Ambrose Bierce
Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence. — Ambrose Bierce
Ability is commonly found to consist mainly in a high degree of solemnity. — Ambrose Bierce

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