"We know truth when we see it,..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Let us not forget the genial miraculous force we have known to proceed from a book.”

“Greatness is a property for which no man gets credit too soon; it must be possessed long before it is acknowledged.”

“The great majority of men grow up and grow old in seeming and following.”

“Civilization can only revive when there shall come into being in a number of individuals a new tone of mind independent of the one prevalent among the crowd and in opposition to it. A new public opinion must be created privately and unobtrusively. The existing one is maintained by the press, by propaganda, by organization, and by financial influences which are at its disposal. The unnatural way of spreading ideas must be opposed by the natural one, which goes from man to man and relies solely on the truth of the thoughts and the hearer's receptiveness of new truth.”

“A difference which makes no difference is no difference at all.”

“The effort to strive for truth has to precede allother efforts.”

“If you don't know the life yet, how could be possible for you to know the death?”

“For there is assuredly nothing dearer to a man than wisdom, and though age takes away all else, it undoubtedly brings us that.”

“Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.”