The multitude of the sick shall not make us deny the existence of health.
Interpretation
Just because many people experience illness doesn't mean we should ignore the concept of health.
Ralph Waldo Emerson's quote emphasizes the importance of recognizing and valuing health, even in a world filled with sickness. It suggests that our perception of health should not be overshadowed by the prevalence of illness among the populace, encouraging us to maintain hope and strive for well-being regardless of the circumstances around us.
In practice
Using this quote in a health seminar to inspire attendees about maintaining a positive outlook on health.
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?
One's doing well if age improves even slightly one's capacity to hold on to that vital truism: "This too shall pass.
Speech was given to the ordinary sort of men, whereby to communicate their mind; but to wise men, whereby to conceal it.
Ideas cannot be fought except by means of better ideas. The battle consists, not of opposing, but of exposing; not of denouncing, but of disproving; not of evading, but of boldly proclaiming a full, consistent, and radical alternative.
When one speaks of awakening, it means de-hypnotizatio n; coming to your senses. But of course to do that, you have to go out of your mind.
The giving way to a less sin makes way for the committing of a greater
Even without success, creative persons find joy in a job well done. Learning for its own sake is rewarding.
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