Quote #296
Salvation would not be a question of accepting a creed, but of acquiring insight.
More from Ralph Waldo Emerson
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- The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
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- If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.
- The torpid artist seeks inspiration at any cost, by virtue or by vice, by friend or by fiend, by prayer or by wine.