Society is a hospital of incurables.

Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Topics: Society Quotes

Life wastes itself while we are preparing to live.

Life wastes itself while we are preparing to live.

Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine, a possession for all time.

Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine, a possession for all time.

Every man passes his life in the search after friendship.

Every man passes his life in the search after friendship.

One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well...

One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well...

The best part of health is fine disposition

The best part of health is fine disposition

We are symbols, and inhabit symbols.

We are symbols, and inhabit symbols.

All our progress is an unfolding, like the vegetable bud, you have first an instinct,...

All our progress is an unfolding, like the vegetable bud, you have first an instinct,...

Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it...

Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it...

Meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it their duty to accept the views...

Meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it their duty to accept the views...

Genius is its own end, and draws its means and the style of its architecture...

Genius is its own end, and draws its means and the style of its architecture...

England, an old and exhausted island, must one day be contented, like other parents, to...

England, an old and exhausted island, must one day be contented, like other parents, to...

I am treating you as my friend, asking you to share my present minuses in...

I am treating you as my friend, asking you to share my present minuses in...

The mind does not create what it perceives, any more than the eye creates the...

The mind does not create what it perceives, any more than the eye creates the...

We do not live an equal life, but one of contrasts and patchwork; now a...

We do not live an equal life, but one of contrasts and patchwork; now a...

It is very unhappy, but too late to be helped, the discovery we have made,...

It is very unhappy, but too late to be helped, the discovery we have made,...

Fear always springs from ignorance

Fear always springs from ignorance

How painful to give a gift to any person of sensibility, or of equality! It...

How painful to give a gift to any person of sensibility, or of equality! It...

Nature and Books belong to the eyes that see them.

Nature and Books belong to the eyes that see them.

Study nature, not books

Study nature, not books

No one ever committed suicide while reading a good book, but many have tried while...

No one ever committed suicide while reading a good book, but many have tried while...