Ralph Waldo Emerson
Man surrounds himself with the true image of himself. …the scholar is the delegated intellect. In the right state, he is, Man Thinking. In the degenerate state, when the victim of society, he tends to…
Socrates
“All men’s souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.” “An unexamined life is not worth living.” “True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.” “I know that I…
Jonathan Edwards
“Grace is but glory begun and glory is but grace perfected.” ~.~ “Seek not to grow in knowledge for the sake of applause, and to enable you to dispute with other; but seek it for…
William James
“The greatest discovery of any generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitude.” ~.~ “The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.” ~.~ “Be…
Jeremy Bentham
“Nature has placed mankind under the government of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure … they govern us in all we do, in all we say, in all we think: every effort we can make…
Aristotle
Wicked men obey from fear, good men, from love. ~.~ Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. ~.~ The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in…
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Next to God we are nothing. To God we are Everything. If you have a garden and a library, you have everything. ~.~
