Quote #59
A man is a god in ruins.
More from Ralph Waldo Emerson
- We are, like Nebuchadnezzar, dethroned, bereft of reason, and eating grass like an ox.
- Success treads on every right step. For the instinct is sure, that prompts him to tell his brother what he thinks. He then learns, that in …
- Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact.
- Wherever Macdonald sits, there is the head of the table.
- Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous.
- The soul is subject to dollars.
- Standing on the bare ground, - my head bathed by the blithe air, and uplifted into infinite space, - all mean egotism vanishes. I become a …
- In how many churches, by how many prophets, tell me, is man made sensible that he is an infinite Soul; that the earth and heavens are passi…