Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Spiritual Quotes, Lying Quotes

The possibility of interpretation lies in the identity of the observer with the observed. Each material thing has its celestial side; has its translation, through humanity, into the spiritual and necessary sphere, where it plays a part as indestructible as any other.

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Life is to be lived, not controlled.

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Let the bird sing without deciphering the song.

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There is the illusion of time, which is very deep; who has disposed of it? Mor come to the conviction that what seems the succession of thought is only the distribution of wholes into causal series.

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The one thing in the world, of value, is the active soul

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There are three wants which never can be satisfied: that of the rich, who wants something more; that of the sick, who wants something different; and that of the traveler, who says anywhere but here.

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Let the river roll which way it will, cities will rise on its banks.

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My hours are peaceful centuries.

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Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life. Football is four 15-minute quarters. Plus timeouts and commercials.

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When some external event raises your spirits and you think good days are preparing for you, do not believe it. It can never be so. Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.

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In the Greek cities, it was reckoned profane, that any person should pretend a property in a work of art, which belonged to all who could behold it.

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A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day.

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Many photographers think they are photographing nature when they are only caricaturing her.

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People suffer all their life long, under the foolish superstition that they can be cheated. But it is impossible for a person to be cheated by anyone but himself.

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Love is our highest word and the synonym of God.

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For, when men shall meet as they ought, each a benefactor, a shower of stars, clothed with thoughts, with deeds, with accomplishments, it should be the festival of nature which all things announce. Of such friendship, love in the sexes is the first symbol, as all other things are symbols of love. Those relations to the best men, which, at one time, we reckoned the romances of youth, become, in the progress of character, the most solid enjoyment.

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Do not say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders, so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.

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Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.

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Emancipation is the demand of civilization. That is a principle; everything else is an intrigue.

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What is the imagination? Only an arm or weapon of the interior energy; only the precursor of the reason.

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