"The truth, the hope, of any time..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“We must have kings, we must have nobles; nature is always providing such in every society; only let us have the real instead of the titular. In every society some are born to rule, and some to advise. The chief is the chief all the world over, only not his cap and plume. It is only this dislike of the pretender which makes men sometimes unjust to the true and finished man.”

“The end of being is to know; and if you say, the end of knowledge is action,-why, yes, but the end of that action again, is knowledge.”

“An original sentence, a step forward, is worth more than all the censures.”

“There are no sects in geometry.”

“When you know the truth, the truth makes you a soldier.”

“Dreams are impartial, spontaneous products of the unconscious psyche, outside the control of the will. They are pure nature; they show us the unvarnished, natural truth, and are therefore fitted, as nothing else is, to give us back an attitude that accords with our basic human nature when our consciousness has strayed too far from its foundations and run into an impasse.”

“Society is a wave. The wave moves onward, but the water of which it is composed does not.”

“Every artist paints his Madonna according to his own pre-conceived ideas.”

“You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anybody.”