Quote #29
What is there in 'Paradise Lost' to elevate and astonish like Herschel or Somerville?
More from Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Quoted in Robert D. Richardson, Jr., Emerson, the Mind On Fire (Univ. of Calif Press 1995), p124
- To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.
- I regard it as the irresistible effect of the Copernican astronomy to have made the theological scheme of redemption absolutely incredible
- When a whole nation is roaring Patriotism at the top of its voice, I am fain to explore the cleanness of its hands and purity of its heart.
- All the thoughts of a turtle are turtles, and of rabbits, rabbits.
- The Religion that is afraid of science dishonours God and commits suicide. It acknowledges that it is not equal to the whole of truth, that…
- The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny.
- Four snakes gliding up and down a hollow for no purpose that I could see - not to eat, not for love, but only gliding.