We lie in the lap of immense intelligence.
Interpretation
This quote suggests that we are surrounded by a vast, profound understanding that influences our lives.
Ralph Waldo Emerson's quote highlights the idea that we exist within an environment filled with deep intelligence and wisdom. It implies that there is a greater knowledge at play in the universe, guiding our actions and thoughts, and that we should be aware of and reflect upon this intelligence as it shapes our experiences and understanding of life.
In practice
In a philosophical discussion about the nature of existence and intelligence.
It is plain that there is no separate essence called courage, no cup or cell in the brain, no vessel in the heart containing drops or atoms that make or give this virtue; but it is the right or healthy state of every man, when he is free to do that which is constitutional to him to do.
Few people have any next, they live from hand to mouth without a plan, and are always at the end of their line.
Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations
Tis the good reader that makes the good book; a good head cannot read amiss: in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakeably meant for his ear.
The world belongs to the energetic.
Hast thou named all the birds without a gun?
The Crucifixion, Atonement, and Resurrection of Jesus Christ mark the beginning of a Christian Life, not the end of it.
I think one of the great dangers here is going and categorizing anybody from one religion as a terrorist. That's not true... That would let the terrorists win. That's what they want us to do.
Adoration is the spontaneous yearning of the heart to worship, honor, magnify, and bless God. We ask nothing but to cherish him. We seek nothing but his exaltation. We focus on nothing but his goodness.
A man is none the less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years. Neither are a people any the less slaves because permitted periodically to choose new masters.
Try not to associate bodily defect with mental, my good friend, except for a solid reason
Man is a complex being: he makes deserts bloom - and lakes die.
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