Occupation: Historian Birth: June 14, 1934
Part of the power of Emerson's individualism is his insistence, at crucial moments, that individualism does not mean isolation or self-sufficiency. T….
Just as science is more immediate and exciting than the history of science, so is insight more compelling than a history of insight..
If death is the end of everything, then living is everything..
[Emerson] was interested not in the bookworm, not even in the thinker, only in Man Thinking..