Quotes by Emerson, Ralph Waldo

For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness. >>

The secret in education lies in respecting the student. >>

Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good. >>

Quotations about Machinery

Freedom from labor itself is not new; it once belonged among the most >>

The vast material displacements the machine has made in our physical e >>

For man is not the creature and product of Mechanism; but, in a far tr >>

By his machines man can dive and remain under water like a shark; can fly like a hawk in the air; can see atoms like a gnat; can see the system of the universe of Uriel, the angel of the sun; can carry whatever loads a ton of coal can lift; can knock down cities with his fist of gunpowder; can recover the history of his race by the medals which the deluge, and every creature, civil or savage or brute, has involuntarily dropped of its existence; and divine the future possibility of the planet and its inhabitants by his perception of laws of nature.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo