What did Ralph Waldo Emerson mean by: The law of nature is alternation for evermore. Each electrical state superinduces the opposite. - Ralph Waldo Emerson Philosopher · USA Copy
+ I read your piece on Plato. Holmes, when you strike at a king, you must kill him. Feraz Zeid, December 14, 2023January 10, 2024, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Criticism, Plato, Power, 0 - Ralph Waldo Emerson Philosopher · USA
+ One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. Feraz Zeid, March 15, 2023January 10, 2024, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Creativity, Invention, Reading, 0 - Ralph Waldo Emerson Philosopher · USA
+ Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them. Feraz Zeid, August 3, 2023December 29, 2023, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Book, Eyes, Nature, 0 - Ralph Waldo Emerson Philosopher · USA
+ God will not have his work made manifest by cowards Feraz Zeid, October 23, 2023December 26, 2023, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Courage, Faith, Work, 0 - Ralph Waldo Emerson Philosopher · USA
+ The true ship is the ship builder. Feraz Zeid, June 27, 2023December 12, 2023, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ships, 0 - Ralph Waldo Emerson Philosopher · USA
+ A poem is made up of thoughts, each of which filled the whole sky of the poet in its turn. Feraz Zeid, December 14, 2023January 10, 2024, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Creativity, Perspective, Poetry, 0 - Ralph Waldo Emerson Philosopher · USA
+ Do what we can, summer will have its flies. Feraz Zeid, October 17, 2023December 26, 2023, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Garden, Insects, Summer, 0 - Ralph Waldo Emerson Philosopher · USA
+ The subject is said to have the property of making dull men eloquent. Feraz Zeid, December 14, 2023January 10, 2024, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Eloquence, Transformation, 0 - Ralph Waldo Emerson Philosopher · USA
I’ve taught, and the first thing I did when I taught art, was not to teach art. Explain - Louise Berliawsky Nevelson Sculptor · Ukraine
Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
The liabilities are always 100 percent good. It’s the assets you have to worry about. Explain - Charlie Munger Business person
It’s stupid the way people extrapolate the past — and not slightly stupid, but massively stupid. Explain - Charlie Munger Business person
Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France