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“Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.”
― Jonathan Swift

“We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.”
― Jonathan Swift

“Proper words in proper places make the true definition of style.”
― Jonathan Swift

“Ever eating, never cloying,
All-devouring, all-destroying
Never finding full repast,
Till I eat the world at last.”
― Jonathan Swift

“Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.”
― Albert Einstein

“The faith that stands on authority is not faith. ”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Man is a piece of the universe made alive”
― RALPH WALDO EMERSON

“I hate the prostitution of the name of friendship to signify modish and worldly alliances.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance and Other Essays

“Miss Austen’s novels … seem to me vulgar in tone, sterile in artistic invention, imprisoned in the wretched conventions of English society, without genius, wit, or knowledge of the world. Never was life so pinched and narrow. The one problem in the mind of the writer … is marriageableness.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“My country is the world and my religion is to do good.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Goodreads could be a source for knowledge but instead does all readers a supreme disservice by allowing the spread of false quotes on the Internet.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“If I know your sect, I anticipate your argument.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, We Are the Builders of Our Fortunes: Success through Self-Reliance

“Kant insisted that the mind has access to preexisting concepts and ideas, which enable us to process the information gathered by our senses. Kant called these preexisting concepts “transcendental forms.” Through them, we come to knowledge by intuition, even apart from experience.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Everyday Emerson: The Wisdom of Ralph Waldo Emerson Paraphrased

“Conservatives and Progressives. These two parties, which divide our government—and every other government—have been fighting for control of the world from the very beginning. History is the chronicle of their battles: between nobles and commoners, rulers and rebels, old traditions and new ideas, the rich and the poor. As the world turns, one side gets the upper hand, then the other, and back again. Only the names change.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Everyday Emerson: The Wisdom of Ralph Waldo Emerson Paraphrased