"Beside all the small reasons we assign,..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Beside all the small reasons we assign, there is a great reason for the existence of every extant fact; a reason which lies grandand immovable, often unsuspected behind it in silence.
More by Ralph Waldo Emerson
“It is a capital blunder; as you discover, when another man recites his charities.”
“Genius is its own end.”
“Well, the world has a million writers. One would think, then, that good thought would be as familiar as air and water, and the gifts of each new hour would exclude the last. Yet we can count all our good books; nay, I remember any beautiful verse for twenty years.”
More on Truth
“I shall repeat a hundred times; we really ought to free ourselves from the seduction of words!”
“For Tibetans, the real strength of our struggle is truth - not size, money, or expertise.”
“And, by the way, one of the most delightful things I find in America is meeting a people without prejudice -- everywhere open to the truth.”
More on Existence
“To lose one's life is no great matter; when the time comes I'll have the courage to lose mine. But what's intolerable is to see one's life being drained of meaning, to be told there's no reason for existing. A man can't live without some reason for living.”
“There I lay staring upward, while the stars wheeled over... Faint to my ears came the gathered rumor of all lands: the springing and the dying, the song and the weeping, and the slow everlasting groan of overburdened stone.”
“Man's moral nature is a riddle which only eternity can solve.”