Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Soul Quotes, Events Quotes

The soul contains the event that shall befall it, for the event is only the actualization of its thoughts; and what we pray to ourselves for is always granted.

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In this world, artists are joyous. Unpredictability is the life of their paintings, their music, their novels. They delight in events not forecasted, happenings without explanation, retrospective.

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A living body is not a fixed thing, but a flowing event, like a flame or a whirlpool.

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The Universe forces those who live in it to understand it. Those creatures who find everyday experience a muddled jumble of events with no predictability, no regularity, are in grave peril. The Universe belongs to those who, at least to some degree, have figured it out.

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It is very rare I come to an event where I’m like the fifth or sixth most interesting person.

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I have always stated I designed the stadium as a toilet seat. I don't care if this is a great cultural event or a national symbol. It has nothing to do with me. It deals with the city.

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Such an event is probable in Agathon's sense of the word: 'it is probable,' he says, 'that many things should happen contrary to probability.'

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Here I come to one of the memoir writer's difficulties -- one of the reasons why, though I read so many, so many are failures. They leave out the person to whom things happened. The reason is that it is so difficult to describe any human being. So they say: 'This is what happened'; but they do not say what the person was like to whom it happened. And the events mean very little unless we know first to whom they happened.

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Thus in the beginning the world was so made that certain signs come before certain events.

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... for those of us who lived through these events, the only marker we'll ever need is the tick of a clock at the 46th minute of the eighth hour of the 11th day.

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There is no event greater in life than the appearance of new persons about our hearth, except it be the progress of the characterwhich draws them.

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The ideal reasoner, he remarked, would, when he had once been shown a single fact in all its bearings, deduce from it not only all the chain of events which led up to it but also all the results which would follow from it.

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Places remember events.

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The act is judged of by the event.

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History is not a catalogue but...a convincing version of events.

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Even a fool is wise after an event.

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Truth, which is permanent, eludes the historian of events. Truth transcends history.

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The great events of the world take place in the brain.

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People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.

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The hero sees that the event is ancillary: it must follow him.

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