"Man is physical as well as metaphysical,..." - 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.
More by Ralph Waldo Emerson
“One lesson we learn early, that in spite of seeming difference, men are all of one pattern. We readily assume this with our mates, and are disappointed and angry if we find that we are premature, and that their watches are slower than ours. In fact, the only sin which we never forgive in each other is difference of opinion.”
“A person's life is limited but serving the people is limitless. I want to devote my limited life to serving the people limitlessly.”
“The man for whom the law exists - the man of forms, the conservative - is a tame man.”
More on Human Nature
“I feel that sin and evil are the negative part of you, and I think it's like a battery: you've got to have the negative and the positive in order to be a complete person.”
“It is much more easy to have sympathy with suffering than it is to have sympathy with thought.”
“If we do not exert the right of eating our neighbor, it is because we have other means of making good cheer”