"So far as a person thinks; they..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Man is physical as well as metaphysical, a thing of shreds and patches, borrowed unequally from good and bad ancestors, and a misfit from the start.”

“In the presence of nature, a wild delight runs through the man, in spite of real sorrows.”

“Free should be the scholar - free and brave.”

“The present moment holds the key to liberation. But you cannot find the present moment as long as you are your mind.”

“The ideas of ancient Greece helped inspire America's founding fathers as they reached for democracy. Our revolutionary ideas helped inspire Greeks as they sought their own freedom.”

“I never saw a man who looked With such a wistful eye Upon that little tent of blue Which prisoners call the sky.”

“World-view is a product of life-view, not vice versa.”

“The crystal sphere of thought is as concentrical as the geological structure of the globe. As our soils and rocks lie in strata, concentric strata, so do all men's thinkings run laterally, never vertically.”

“Common fluency of speech in many men and most women is owing to a scarcity of matter.”