"I do not know what arguments mean..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson
I do not know what arguments mean in reference to any expression of a thought. I delight in telling what I think; but if you ask me how I dare say so, or why it is so, I am the most helpless of men.
More by Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Let us learn to live coarsely, dress plainly, and lie hard. The least habit of dominion over the palate has certain good effects not easily estimated.”
“When summer opens, I see how fast it matures, and fear it will be short; but after the heats of July and August, I am reconciled, like one who has had his swing, to the cool of autumn.”
“Prudence is the virtue of the senses. It is the science of appearances. It is the outmost action of the inward life.”
More on Thought
“Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions. Intellect, will, taste, and passion co-operate just as they do in practical affairs; and lucky it is if the passion be not something as petty as a love of personal conquest over the philosopher across the way.”
“The quality of the thought differences the Egyptian and the Roman, the Austrian and the American.”
“Sell your clothes- keep your thoughts.”
More on Expression
“Poetry too is a little incarnation, giving body to what had been before invisible and inaudible.”
“All you need is something to say, and a burning desire to say it... it doesn't matter where your hands are.”
“It's not always easy to be transparent about your emotions and sometimes the music can get heavy.”