Emerson Idealism Quotes & Sayings

Great as the differences are between the breeds of pigeons, I am fully convinced that the common opinion of naturalists is correct, namely, that all have descended from the rock-pigeon (Columba livia), including under this term several geographical races or sub-species, which differ from each other in the most trifling respects. — Charles Darwin

Nothing, believe me, nothing is more satisfying to me personally than getting a great idea and then beatin' it to death. — David Letterman

Boys, boys, boys. Boys buy the little spinny tops, they but the action figures, girls buy princesses, we're not selling princesses. — Paul Dini

Modern transcendental idealism, Emersonianism, for instance, also seems to let God evaporate into abstract Ideality. Not a deity in concreto, not a superhuman person, but the immanent divinity in things, the essentially spiritual structure of the universe, is the object of the transcendentalist cult. In that address of the graduating class at Divinity College in 1838 which made Emerson famous, the frank expression of this worship of mere abstract laws was what made the scandal of the performance. — William James

I guess that seems like an absurd premise until we consider the possibility that the dead are always with us, beckoning from the shade, reminding us that we're actors in the same drama they have already lived and that they can help us with our lives if we will only let them. — James Lee Burke

Brian had been killed the year before on a Campus black op in Libya. Dom had been there, he'd held his brother in his arms as he died, and then Dominic returned to The Campus, hell-bent on doing the hard, dangerous work that he believed in. — Tom Clancy

Essential acts to master for self realisation;
Master the act of learning.
Master the act of writing.
Master the act of reading. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I waited for my thighs and butt to uncramp. Of course, they didn't know the loosening rule. They were screaming things like *Are you crazy? Do you know we're thirty-five years old? Sit down and feed us a Twinkie! — P.C. Cast

The idealism of Berkeley is only a crude statement of the idealism of Jesus, and that again is a crude statement of the fact thatall nature is the rapid efflux of goodness executing and organizing itself. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every materialist will be an idealist; but an idealist can never go backward to be a materialist. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is curious that Christianity, which is idealism, is sturdily defended by the brokers, and steadily attacked by the idealists. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

For the last time, it is a pouch, not a fanny pack. How come no one sees the difference?" "There is no difference. That's why no one can see it. — K.F. Breene

His countenance, dear Ellakins, is no strain upon young female eyes! — Mark Dunn

I wanted control over what was said and what was not said, rather than holding my head down in shame. — Rebecca Loos

Idealism saith: matter is a phenomenon, not a substance. Idealism acquaints us with the total disparity between the evidence of our own being, and the evidence of the world's being. The one is perfect; the other, incapable of any assurance; the mind is a part of the nature of things; the world is a divine dream, from which we may presently awake to the glories and certainties of day. Idealism is a hypothesis to account for nature by other principles than those of carpentry and chemistry. Yet, — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Romanians are culturally European, very close to the French. Socially, they are now building a society that is emotionally closer to the Balkans, Turkey and Greece. — Andrei Codrescu

The Truth is the only thing you'll ever run into that has no agenda. — Adyashanti

I feel called to be faithful. — Greg Boyle

If he were insane, however, his was a very cool and collected insanity. — Charlotte Bronte

We are reformers in the spring, but iin autumn we stand by the old. Ralph Waldo Emerson — Ron Suskind

Idealism sees the world in God. It beholds the whole circle of persons and things, of actions and events, of country and religion,not as painfully accumulated, atom after atom, act after act, in an aged creeping Past, but as one vast picture, which God paints on the instant eternity, for the contemplation of the soul. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Satan's primary temptation strategy is to try and make us forget what God has said about us and to evaluate our standing before God by some other criteria — J.D. Greear