"The scholar is that man who must..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson
The scholar is that man who must take up into himself all the ability of the time, all the contributions of the past, all the hopes of the future. He must be an university of knowledges.
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“Begin and proceed on a settled conviction that but little is permitted to any man to do or to know, and if he complies with the first grand laws, he shall do well.”
“Wealth brings with it its own checks and balances. The basis of political economy is noninterference. The only safe rule is found in the self-adjusting meter of demand and supply. Open the doors of opportunity to talent and virtue and they will do themselves justice, and property will not be in bad hands. In a free and just commonwealth, property rushes from the idle and imbecile to the industrious, brave and persevering.”
“Manners are very communicable: men catch them from each other.”
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“And since we cannot deceive the whole human race all the time, it is most important thus to cut every generation off from all others; for where learning makes a free commerce between the ages there is always the danger that the characteristic errors of one may be corrected by the characteristic truths of another.”
“The most important thing to me is, how, in the process of learning how to use my body, can I come to understand myself ?”
“Much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on.”
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“There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.”
“All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values.”
“I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand.”