Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Expression Quotes, Insane Quotes

Sentimentalists ... adopt whatever merit is in good repute, and almost make it hateful with their praise. The warmer their expressions, the colder we feel.... Cure the drunkard, heal the insane, mollify the homicide, civilize the Pawnee, but what lessons can be devised for the debauchee of sentiment?

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If one has no affection for a person or a system, one should feel free to give the fullest expression to his disaffection so long as he does not contemplate, promote, or incite violence.

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Can you also, Lucullus, affirm that there is any power united with wisdom and prudence which has made, or, to use your own expression, manufactured man? What sort of a manufacture is that? Where is it exercised? when? why? how?

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If there is no freedom of expression, then the beauty of life is lost. Participation in a society is not an artistic choice, it’s a human need.

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The body is made by the thought that lies behind it. The body politic is thus the expression of national thought.

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It's like ten thousand spoons, when all you need is a knife.

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Society is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them. These we call sentimentalists - talkers who mistake the description for the thing, saying for having.

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Because our expression is imperfect we need friendship to fill up the imperfections.

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How beautiful maleness is, if it finds its right expression.

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I don't talk politics and I don't talk philosophy or anything like that, but if you look at my work, you might get an expression of me as a person.

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The guillotine is the ultimate expression of Law, and its name is vengeance; it is not neutral, nor does it allow us to remain neutral.

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Traveling is one expression of the desire to cross boundaries.

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For all these new and evolutionary facts, meanings, purposes, new poetic messages, new forms and expressions, are inevitable.

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When God's hand is bent to strike, it is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God ; but to fall out of the hands of the living God is a horror beyond our expression, beyond our imagination.

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Dignity and quiet joy in all that we do are the expression of perfect concentration and perfect wisdom.

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Preaching is the expression of moral sentiments applied to the duties of life.

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A journalist's peculiar function is to read the mind of the country and to give definite and fearless expression to that mind.

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A symbol is indeed the only possible expression of some invisible essence, a transparent lamp about a spiritual flame; while allegory is one of many possible representations of an embodied thing, or familiar principle, and belongs to fancy and not to imagination: the one is a revelation, the other an amusement.

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Idealism does not represent a superfluous expression of emotion, but in truth it has been, is, and will be, the premise for what we designate as human culture...Without his idealistic attitude all, even the most dazzling faculties of the intellect, would remain mere intellect just like outward appearance without inner value, and never creative force....The purest idealism is unconsciously equivalent to the deepest knowledge.

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We must become expressions of, not consumers of, realization.

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