Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
It Is Very Unhappy, But Too Late To Be Helped, The Discovery We Have Made, That We Exist. That Discovery Is Called The Fall Of Man. Ever Afterwards, We Suspect Our Instruments. We Have Learned That We Do Not See Directly, But Mediately, And That We Have No Means Of Correcting These Colored And Distorting Lenses Which We Are, Or Of Computing The Amount Of Their Errors. Perhaps These Subject-lenses Have A Creative Power; Perhaps There Are No Objects. Once We Lived In What We Saw; Now, The Rapaciousness Of This New Power, Which Threatens To Absorb All Things, Engages Us. Nature, Art, Persons, Letters, Religions - Objects, Successively Tumble In, And God Is But One Of Its Ideas.
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