Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Plato Quotes, Philosophy Quotes

Plato is philosophy, and philosophy, Plato,--at once the glory and the shame of mankind, since neither Saxon nor Roman have availed to add any idea to his categories.

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The mass of men worry themselves into nameless graves while here and there a great unselfish soul forgets himself into immortality.

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What we love that we have, but by desire we bereave ourselves of the love.

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We come to our own and would make friends with matter, which the ambitious chatter of the schools would persuade us to despise. We can never part with it; the mind loves its old home: as water to our thirst, so is rock, the ground, to our eyes, and hands, and feet. It is firm water: it is cold flame: what health, what affinity!

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It is my desire, in the office of a Christian minister, to do nothing which I cannot do with my whole heart. Having said this, I have said all.

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A right rule for a club would be,-Admit no man whose presence excludes any one topic.

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To believe in luck, if it were not a solecism so to use the word believe, is skepticism.

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Beauty is the moment of transition, as if the form were just ready to flow into other forms.

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The corruption of man is followed by the corruption of language.

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Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong.

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The only sin that we never forgive in each other is a difference in opinion.

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Go into one of our cool churches, and begin to count the words that might be spared, and in most places the entire sermon will go.

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When a man thinks happily, he finds no foot-track in the field he traverses. All spontaneous thought is irrespective of all else.

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Nature is no spendthrift, but takes the shortest way to her ends.

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People who know how to act are never preachers.

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There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrate to some stroke of the imagination.

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Religion is as effectively destroyed by bigotry as by indifference.

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We must leave our pets at home, when we go into the street, and meet men on broad grounds of good meaning and good sense.

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It is hard to go beyond your public. If they are satisfied with cheap performance, you will not easily arrive at better. If they know what is good, and require it. you will aspire and burn until you achieve it. But from time to time, in history, men are born a whole age too soon.

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War educates the senses, calls into action the will, perfects the physical constitution, brings men into such swift and close collision in critical moments that man measures man.

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