"Nothing can be colder than his head,..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The world always had the same bankrupt look, to foregoing ages as to us.”

“Life is girt all round with a zodiac of sciences, the contributions of men who have perished to add their point of light to our sky. ... These road-makers on every hand enrich us. We must extend the area of life and multiply our relations. We are as much gainers by finding a property in the old earth as by acquiring a new planet.”

“Things are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but, until they speak to the imagination, not yet beautiful.”

“I examine my own being, and find there a world, but a world rather of imagination and dim desires, than of distinctness and living power. Then everything swims before my senses, and I smile and dream while pursuing my way through the world.”

“We ran as if to meet the moon.”

“I definitely feel that we cannot do the fantastic things based on the real, unless we first know the real.”

“Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.”

“Philosophy, as the modern world knows it, is only intellectual club-swinging.”

“The intellectual attainments of a man who thinks for himself resemble a fine painting, where the light and shade are correct, the tone sustained, the colour perfectly harmonised; it is true to life. On the other hand, the intellectual attainments of the mere man of learning are like a large palette, full of all sorts of colours, which at most are systematically arranged, but devoid of harmony, connection and meaning.”