Quotes by Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Other men are lenses through which we read our own minds. Each man see >>

The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men around to h >>

The profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until an equal >>

Quotations about State

If nationality is consent, the state is compulsion. >>

The essence of the modern state is that the universal be bound up with >>

As high as mind stands above nature, so high does the state stand abov >>

The State must follow, and not lead, the character and progress of the citizen.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo