"We animate what we can see, and we…" — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"We animate what we can see, and we see only what we animate."
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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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More Animate Quotes
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one of 73 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Our notion of the perfect society embraces the family as its center and ornament, and this paradise is not secure…
— Amos Bronson Alcott
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Most of the time one is discouraged by the work, but now and again by some grace something stands out…
— Leonard Cohen
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Yet some can be patriotic who have no self-respect, and sacrifice the greater to the less. They love the soil…
— Henry David Thoreau
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In war the will is directed at an animate object that reacts.
— Carl von Clausewitz
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I notice my wife when she's on the phone with her friends, man they will share every animate details of…
— Jeff Foxworthy
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At this stage you must admit that whatever is seen to be sentient is nevertheless composed of atoms that are…
— Lucretius
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The earth's becoming at a particular period the residence of human beings, was an era in the moral, not in…
— Charles Lyell
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I share the belief of many of my contemporaries that the spiritual crisis pervading all spheres of Western industrial society…
— Albert Hofmann
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It cannot for a moment be doubted that an art work to be alive, to awaken us to its life,…
— Louis Sullivan
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The general struggle for existence of animate beings is not a struggle for raw materials, these for organisms are air…
— Ludwig Boltzmann
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We are more connected than ever before, more able to spread our ideas and beliefs, our anger and fears. As…
— William J. Clinton
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The aeroplane is the nearest thing to animate life that man has created. In the air a machine ceases indeed…
— Unknown Author
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