Let every man shovel out his own snow, and the whole city will be passable," said Gamache. Seeing Beauvoir's puzzled expression he added, "Emerson. " "Lake and Palmer?" "Ralph and Waldo.
The most wonderful inspirational chemistry we can use on another is the gift of our love and acceptance. Devoted and unquestioned love has a magic creative power. The consciousness of being loved is an uplifting, saving, healing force that causes one to go on when otherwise it would be impossible to do so. "Love," said Emerson, "is the affirmative of affirmatives. "
If, as Emerson wrote, every word was once an idea, every cliché was once a revelation.
"All government in essence," says Emerson, "is tyranny. " It matters not whether it is government by divine right or majority rule. In every instance its aim is the absolute subordination of the individual.
When [Ralph Waldo] Emerson visited Thoreau in jail and asked, 'What are you doing in there?' it was reported that Thoreau replied, 'What are you doing out there?'
The great spiritual geniuses, whether it was Moses, Buddha, Plato, Socrates, Jesus, or Emerson. . . . . have taught man to look within himself to find God.
The landscape belongs to the person who looks at it. . . " -Ralph Waldo Emerson
No one can get inner peace by pouncing on it. --Harry Emerson FosdickNo one can get inner peace by pouncing on it.
Margaret Fuller was already a celebrity, travelling around the world. Emerson, who was the axis around which that whole community turned, just didn't like Fourier's ideas very much. He thought it was all too rigid and programmatic. He said, "Fourier had skipped no fact but one, namely life. " He thought it was an inhumane system - the day is scheduled too precisely. He didn't think it would work, and he was right.
I have not, in general, much belief in the ability of woman as a creative artist. Unwritten lyrics, as [Ralph Waldo] Emerson said once when we conversed on this subject, should be her forte.
Their spirituality was in nature, even though Emerson was a preacher on the pulpit, he ended up going out into nature for direct, face-to-face communication with God, if you want to call all of this creation part of God.
More and more Emerson recedes grandly into history, as the future he predicted becomes a past.
I sometimes wonder what it would be like to be the respected patriarch of an ordinary English family. " "Very boring, Emerson.
