Occupation: Essayist Birth: May 25, 1803 Death: April 27, 1882
Come out of the azure. Love the day. Do not leave the sky out of your landscape..
Blessed are those who have no talent!.
A beautiful woman is a picture which drives all beholders nobly mad..
There is more in every person's soul than we think..
When God lets loose a great thinker on this planet, then all things are at risk. There is not a piece of science but its flank may be turned to-morro….
I will no longer confer, differ, refer, defer, prefer, or suffer. I renounce the whole tribe of fero. I embrace absolute life..
Always maintain your common sense and artful skills, and funnel it all into plain enough dealings..
Far or forgot to me is near; Shadow and sunlight are the same; The vanished gods to me appear; And one to me are shame and fame.They reckon ill who l….
Souls are not saved in bundles..
This day is all that is good and fair. It is too dear, with its hopes and invitations, to waste a moment on the yesterdays..
I have never met a man who was not my superior in some particular..
I think we must get rid of slavery or we must get rid of freedom..
Beauty is the moment of transition, as if the form were just ready to flow into other forms..
Science does not know its debt to imagination..
The whole world is an omen and a sign. Why look so wistfully in a corner? Man is the Image of God. Why run after a ghost or a dream? The voice of div….
But only that soul can be my friend which I encounter on the line of my own march, that soul to which I do not decline, and which does not decline me….
Lovers should guard their strangeness. If they forgive too much, all slides into confusion and meanness..
Conservatism, ever more timorous and narrow, disgusts the children, and drives them for a mouthful of fresh air into radicalism..
I am not so foolish as to declaim against forms. Forms are as essential as bodies; but to exalt particular forms, to adhere to oneform a moment after….
The religion which is to guide and fulfill the present and coming ages, whatever else it be, must be intellectual. The scientific mind must have a fa….
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope..