Quotes of Emerson - somelinesforyou

“ Of the creative spirits that flourished in Concord, Massachusetts, during the middle of the nineteenth century, it might be said that Hawthorne loved men but felt estranged from them, Emerson loved ideas even more than men, and Thoreau loved himself. ”

- Leon Edel

“ Perhaps we should comprehend these things better were it not for the persistence of the superstition that human beings habitually think. There is no more persistent superstition than this. Linnus helped it on to an undeserved permanence when he devised the name Homo sapiens for the highest species of the order primates… ”

- Nicholas Murray Butler
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