Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

What Is It We Heartily Wish Of Each Other? Is It To Be Pleased And Flattered? No, But To Be Convicted And Exposed, To Be Shamed Out Of Our Nonsense Of All Kinds, And Made Men Of, Instead Of Ghosts And Phantoms. We Are Weary Of Gliding Ghostlike Through The World, Which Is Itself So Slight And Unreal. We Crave A Sense Of Reality, Though It Comes In Strokes Of Pain.

Related Authors

• Andy Greenwald
• Curt Mega
• Earl Butz
• Henry Burton
• Joshua Ferris
• Judith Briles
• Mary Haskell
• Michael R. Fletcher
• Petra Remes
• Steve James
• Tina Seelig
• William Gaius

Related Topics

• After Midnight Quotes

  One of my favorite sights is to look across a room packed with people with their Bibles in their laps, studying who God is and what God has said- after — David Platt

• I Wish I Was Happy Quotes

  You judge very properly," said Mr. Bennet, "and it is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed — Jane Austen

• Love Sparkling Quotes

  Slowly the truth is loading I'm weighted down with love Snow lying deep and even Strung out and dreaming of Night falling on the city Quite something to behold Don't — David Gray

• Loving You Is The Best Thing Ever Quotes

  And you and I know you're the best thing that ever happened to me, and, yes, that's an expression, something people say, that has no meaning, but what I mean — Ethan Hawke

• One Bloody Thing After Another Quotes

  Death, of course, like chastity, admits of no degree; a man is dead or not dead, and a man is just as dead by one means as by another; but — Frederic Manning