Quote #16436
For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.
Quote #17966
A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.
Quote #7067
In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn, than to contemplate.
Quote #31124
Part of the power of Emerson’s individualism is his insistence, at crucial moments, that...
Quote #5882
Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have...
Quote #7048
No sword bites so fiercly as an evil tongue.
Quote #10139
If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will...
Quote #3967
It is the dull man who is always sure, and the sure man who...
Quote #21051
Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with.
Quote #22483
I’ve analyzed the best I can … and I have not found an impeachable...