Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes on Reality
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To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.
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Time dissipates to shining ether the solid angularity of facts.
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Every ship is a romantic object, except that we sail in.
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The Indian who was laid under a curse, that the wind should not blow on him, nor water flow to him, nor fire burn him, is a type of us all. The dearest events are summer-rain, and we the Para coats that shed every drop. Nothing is left us now but death. We look to that with a grim satisfaction, saying, there at least is reality that will not dodge us.
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Of what use is genius, if the organ is too convex or too concave and cannot find a focal distance within the actual horizon of human life?
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Can anybody remember when the times were not hard and money not scarce?