Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Power Quotes, Elements Quotes

Life is a search after power; and this is an element with which the world is so saturated,-there is no chink or crevice in which it is not lodged,-that no honest seeking goes unrewarded.

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A man is the prisoner of his power. A topical memory makes him an almanac; a talent for debate, disputant; skill to get money makes him a miser, that is, a beggar. Culture reduces these inflammations by invoking the aid of other powers against the dominant talent, and by appealing to the rank of powers. It watches success.

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Liberty, then, about which so many volumes have been written is, when accurately defined, only the power of acting.

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It is the beginning of all true criticism of our time to realize that it has really nothing to say, at the very moment when it has invented so tremendous a trumpet for saying it.

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The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.

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When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.

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Real power does not consist in the ability to inflict capital punishment upon the subjects, but in the will and the ability to protect the subjects against the world.

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Knowledge, Virtue, Power are the victories of man over his necessities, his march to the dominion of the world.

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It is impossible that had Buonaparte descended from a race of vegetable feeders that he could have had either the inclination or the power to ascend the throne of the Bourbons.

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What then do you call your soul? What idea have you of it? You cannot of yourselves, without revelation, admit the existence within you of anything but a power unknown to you of feeling and thinking.

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When you give power to an executive you do not know who will be filling that position when the time of crisis comes.

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I thought that my invincible power would hold the world captive, leaving me in a freedom undisturbed. Thus night and day I worked at the chain with huge fires and cruel hard strokes. When at last the work was done and the links were complete and unbreakable, I found that it held me in its grip.

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Where a man does his best with only moderate powers, he will have the advantage over negligent superiority.

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Their insatiable lust for power is only equaled by their incurable impotence in exercising it.

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The first method is that of a schemer and leads only to mediocre results; the other method is the path of genius and changes the face of the world.

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Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - health, food, a place to live, entertainment - they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.

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The Vedanta recognizes no sin it only recognizes error. And the greatest error, says the Vedanta is to say that you are weak, that you are a sinner, a miserable creature, and that you have no power and you cannot do this and that.

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Where the Government is weak, military sway prevails.

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Every natural power exhilarates; a true talent delights the possessor first.

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Life is an instinct for growth, for survival, for the accumulation of forces, for power.

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