Quote #254
The true test of civilization is, not the census, nor the size of the cities, nor the crops - no, but the kind of man the country turns out.
More from Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Hitch your wagon to a star.
- Every genuine work of art has as much reason for being as the earth and the sun.
- The most advanced nations are always those who navigate the most.
- Nature paints the best part of a picture, carves the best parts of the statue, builds the best part of the house, and speaks the best part …
- There is no knowledge that is not power.
- A masterpiece of art has in the mind a fixed place in the chain of being, as much as a plant or a crystal.
- We do not count a man's years until he has nothing else to count.
- Science does not know its debt to imagination.