The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing is rich but the inexhaustible wealth of nature.
She shows us only surfaces, but she is a million fathoms deep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of
civilization.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If the colleges were better, if they really had it, you would need to get
the police at the gates to keep order in the inrushing multitude. See in
college how we thwart the natural love of learning by leaving the natural
method of teaching what each wishes to learn, and insisting that you shall
learn what you have no taste or capacity for. The college, which should
be a place of delightful labor, is made odious and unhealthy, and the
young men are tempted to frivolous amusements to rally their jaded spirits.
I would have the studies elective. Scholarship is to be created not
by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge. The wise
instructor accomplishes this by opening to his pupils precisely the
attractions the study has for himself. The marking is a system for schools,
not for the college; for boys, not for men; and it is an ungracious work to
put on a professor.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from
the vexation of thinking.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journals, 1831
I hate quotations.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The reward of a thing well done, is to have done it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Let us treat men and women well;
Treat them as if they were real;
Perhaps they are.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If the colleges were better, if they really had it, you would need to
get the police at the gates to keep order in the inrushing multitude.
See in college how we thwart the natural love of learning by leaving
the natural method of teaching what each wishes to learn, and insisting
that you shall learn what you have no taste or capacity for. The
college, which should be a place of delightful labor, is made odious
and unhealthy, and the young men are tempted to frivolous amusements to
rally their jaded spirits. I would have the studies elective.
Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure
interest in knowledge. The wise instructor accomplishes this by
opening to his pupils precisely the attractions the study has for
himself. The marking is a system for schools, not for the college; for
boys, not for men; and it is an ungracious work to put on a professor.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from
the vexation of thinking.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journals, 1831
Adhere to your own act, and congratulate yourself if you have done something
strange and extravagant, and broken the monotony of a decorous age.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
To be great is to be misunderstood.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we
must carry it with us or we find it not.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Art is a jealous mistress.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Adhere to your own act, and congratulate yourself if you have done something
strange and extravagant, and broken the monotony of a decorous age.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Each man takes care that his neighbor shall not cheat him. But a day comes
when he begins to care that he does not cheat his neighbor. Then all goes
well -- he has changed his market-cart into a chariot of the sun.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Art is a jealous mistress.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
When it's dark enough you can see the stars.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson,
I hate quotations.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If the colleges were better, if they really had it, you would need to get
the police at the gates to keep order in the inrushing multitude. See in
college how we thwart the natural love of learning by leaving the natural
method of teaching what each wishes to learn, and insisting that you shall
learn what you have no taste or capacity for. The college, which should
be a place of delightful labor, is made odious and unhealthy, and the
young men are tempted to frivolous amusements to rally their jaded spirits.
I would have the studies elective. Scholarship is to be created not
by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge. The wise
instructor accomplishes this by opening to his pupils precisely the
attractions the study has for himself. The marking is a system for schools,
not for the college; for boys, not for men; and it is an ungracious work to
put on a professor.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is a capacity of virtue in us, and there is a capacity of vice to make
your blood creep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Money often costs too much.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for
you in your private heart is true for all men -- that is genius.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is a capacity of virtue in us, and there is a capacity of vice to make
your blood creep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we m st carry it within
us or we will find it not.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson