Quotes by Emerson, Ralph Waldo

There is a crack in everything God has made. >>

As men's prayers are a disease of the will, so are their creeds a dise >>

The first thing a great person does, is make us realize the insignific >>

Quotations about Masses

The masses have no habit of self reliance or original action. >>

What will happen once the authentic mass man takes over, we do not kno >>

This leads us to note down in our psychological chart of the mass-man >>

Leave this hypocritical prating about the masses. Masses are rude, lame, unmade, pernicious in their demands and influence, and need not to be flattered, but to be schooled. I wish not to concede anything to them, but to tame, drill, divide, and break them up, and draw individuals out of them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo