Meek young men grow up in libraries believing it their duty to accept the views which Cicero, which Locke, which Bacon have given, forgetful that Cicero, Locke and Bacon were only young men in libraries when they wrote those books.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe poets made all the words and therefore language is the archives of history, and, if we must say it, a sort of tomb of the muses. For though the origin of most of our words is forgotten, each word was at first a stroke of genius, and obtained currency because for the moment it symbolized the world to the first speaker and to the hearer. The etymologist finds the deadest word to have been once a brilliant picture. Language is fossil poetry.
Ralph Waldo EmersonTruly speaking, it is not instruction, but provocation, that I can receive from another soul. What he announces, I must find true in me, or reject; and on his word, or as his second, be he who he may, I can accept nothing.
Ralph Waldo EmersonTags: self-reliance provocation
Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it
Ralph Waldo EmersonEvery violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society.
Ralph Waldo EmersonTags: truth lies human-society
Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same
Ralph Waldo EmersonTags: nature
Astronomy to the selfish becomes astrology.
Ralph Waldo EmersonTags: astronomy
Every man contemplates an angel in his future self
Ralph Waldo Emersonلم يتحقق شئ عظيم بدون حماس
Ralph Waldo EmersonWe mark with light in the memory the few interviews we have had with souls that made our souls wiser, that spoke what we thought, that told us what we knew, that gave us leave to be what we inly are.
Ralph Waldo EmersonTags: inspirational nonfiction moving daring-to-trust
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