Quote #8

Yet a man may love a paradox, without losing either his wit or his honesty.

More from Ralph Waldo Emerson

  1. I fancy I need more than another to speak (rather than write), with such a formidable tendency to the lapidary style. I build my house of b…
  2. Literature is the effort of man to indemnify himself for the wrongs of his condition.
  3. Place yourself in the middle of the stream of power and wisdom which animates all whom it floats, and you are without effort impelled to tr…
  4. There is always a certain meanness in the argument of conservatism, joined with a certain superiority in its fact.
  5. He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and hi…
  6. The two parties which divide the State, the party of Conservatism and that of Innovation are very old, and have disputed the possession of …
  7. The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity. The inventor did it because it was natural to him, and so in him it has a charm. In the …
  8. Self-reliance, the height and perfection of man, is reliance on God.

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