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  • At present, man applies to nature but half his force. He works on the world with his understanding alone. He lives in it, and masters it by a penny-wisdom; and he that works most in it, is but a half-man, and whilst his arms are strong and his digestion good, his mind is imbruted, and he is a selfish savage.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Strong Quotes , Selfish Quotes
  • Furthermore, what profit was it to me that I, rascally slave of selfish ambitions that I was, read and understood by myself as many books as I could get concerning the so-called liberal arts?...I had turned my back to the light and my face to the things it illuminated, and so no light played upon my own face, or on the eyes that perceived them.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Saint Augustine Quotes , Art Quotes , Selfish Quotes
  • The service a man renders his friend is trivial and selfish, compared with the service he knows his friend stood in readiness to yield him, alike before he had begun to serve his friend, and now also. Compared with that good-will I bear my friend, the benefit it is in my power to render him seems small.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Friendship Quotes , Selfish Quotes
  • Humans call animals 'dumb'... after they robbed their entire own precious world. They are intelligent beings in their own right, and thoroughly self-sufficient... if not molested by humans. Yet, after millennia of slavery by selfish/callous humans they're made to look dumb! The 'superior species' in their situations would, too, appear 'dumb'.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Adela Popescu Quotes , Selfish Quotes , Animal Quotes
  • The scholar was not raised by the sacred thoughts amongst which he dwelt, but used them to selfish ends. He was a profane person,and became a showman, turning his gifts to marketable use, and not to his own sustenance and growth. It was found that the intellect could be independently developed, that is, in separation from the man, as any single organ can be invigorated, and the result was monstrous.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Selfish Quotes , Men Quotes