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Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Sculpture and painting have the effect of teaching us manners and abolishing hurry.”

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American essayist, poet, and philosopher. Born on May 25, 1803, and died on April 27, 1882. Known for his transcendentalist philosophy, his works have had a profound impact on literature and the intellectual world. more

“I have thought of a pulley to raise me gradually; but that would give me pain, as it would counteract my natural inclination. I would have something that can dissipate the inertia and give elasticity to the muscles. We can heat the body, we can cool it; we can give it tension or relaxation; and surely it is possible to bring it into a state in which rising from bed will not be a pain.”

Giving States Body Pain Natural Bed Give Me Raises Heat Tension Rising Muscles Relaxation Inclination Inertia Elasticity Pulleys

Book:The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Together with A Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides

Source: The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Together with A Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides

“To place oneself in the position of God is painful: being God is equivalent to being tortured. For being God means that one is in harmony with all that is, including the worst. The existence of the worst evils is unimaginable unless God willed them.”

Mean God Pain Evil Existence Worst Position Harmony Including Oneself Painful Gods Will Unimaginable

Author:Georges Bataille

“And I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, & consequently suggests more tugging, & pain, & diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie.”

Pain Wonder Marriage Elements Misery Mortals Ties Knots Tugging

Author:Edith Wharton

“More significant than the fact that poets write abstrusely, painters paint abstractly, and composers compose unintelligible music is that people should admire what they cannot understand; indeed, admire that which has no meaning or principle.”

People Should Writing Facts Pain Principles Poet Music Is Paint Significant Admire Painter Composer Obscurity

Author:Eric Hoffer

“Strictly speaking, there is but one real evil: I mean acute pain. All other complaints are so considerably diminished by time that it is plain the grief is owing to our passion, since the sensation of it vanishes when that is over.”

Mean Real Pain Passion Evil Grief Sensations Complaints Owing

Book:The Letters and Works: In Three Volumes

Source: The Letters and Works: In Three Volumes

“Pain, scorned by yonder gout-ridden wretch, endured by yonder dyspeptic in the midst of his dainties, borne bravely by the girl in travail. Slight thou art, if I can bear thee, short thou art if I cannot bear thee!”

Ifs Art I Can Pain Girl Bears Thee Midst Scorned Gout

Author:Seneca the Younger

“Heads of state are notoriously ill prepared for their mature careers; think of Adolf Hitler (landscape painter), Ho Chi Minh (seaman), and our own Ronald Reagan.”

Thinking States Pain Politics Careers Politician Prepared Ill Painter Landscape Mature Head Of State Seamen

Book:WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES

Source: WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES

“Much of modern art is devoted to lowering the threshold of what is terrible. By getting us used to what, formerly, we could not bear to see or hear, because it was too shocking, painful, or embarrassing, art changes morals.”

Art Pain Used Moral Modern Bears Terrible Art Is Painful Devoted Shocking Embarrassing Threshold Modern Art

Author:Susan Sontag

Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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