There is not the slightest probability that the college will foster an eminent talent in any youth. If he refuse prayers and recitations, they will torment and traduce and expel him, though he were Newton or Dante.
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
‘Tis pedantry to estimate nations by the census, or by square miles of land, or other than by their importance to the mind of the time.
In our large cities, the population is godless, materialized – no bond, no fellow feeling, no enthusiasm. These are not men, but hungers, thirsts, fevers and appetites walking.
A man of good sense but of little faith, whose compassion seemed to lead him to church as often as he went there, said to me; ‘that he liked to have concerts, and fairs, and churches, and other public amusements go on.’
Jesus Christ was a minister of the pure Reason. The beatitudes of the Sermon on the Mount are all utterances of the mind contemning the phenomenal world. “Blessed are the righteous poor, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are ye when men revile you,” etc. The Understanding can make nothing of it. ‘Tis […]
God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please; you can never have both.
There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.
I like my boy with his endless sweet soliloquies and iterations and his utter inability to conceive why I should not leave all my nonsense, business, and writing and come to tie up his toy horse, as if there was or could be any end to nature beyond his horse. And he is wiser than […]
