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Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet. Then all things are at risk. It is as when a conflagration has broken out in a great city, and no man knows what is safe, or where it will end. There is not a piece of science, but its flank may be turned to-morrow; there is not any literary reputation, not the so-called eternal names of fame, that may not be revised and condemned. The very hopes of man, the thoughts of his heart, the religion of nations, the manners and morals of mankind, are all at the mercy of a new generalization. Generalization is always a new influx of the divinity into the mind. Hence the thrill that attends it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson : American transcendentalist philosopher, essayist & lecturer
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
Source: Essays: Circles
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There is a principle which is the basis of things, which all speech aims to say, and all action to evolve, a simple, quiet, undescribed, undescribable presence, dwelling very peacefully in us, our rightful lord: we are not to do, but to let do; not to work, but to be worked upon.

Ralph Waldo Emerson : American transcendentalist philosopher, essayist & lecturer
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
Source: The Conduct of Life
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"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."

Ralph Waldo Emerson : American transcendentalist philosopher, essayist & lecturer
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
 
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The definition of success--To laugh much; to win respect of intelligent persons and the affections of children; to earn the approbation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to give one's self; to leave the world a little better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition.; to have played and laughed with enthusiasm, and sung with exultation; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived--this is to have succeeded.

Ralph Waldo Emerson : American transcendentalist philosopher, essayist & lecturer
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
 
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Any ideological or religious construct that has the audacity and hubris to define God and make itself the sole pathway to truth, operates in the delusional cesspool of its own darkness.  

Copyright 2008 - David C. Bojorquez

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