The true test of civilization is not the census, nor the size of cities, nor the crops - no, but the kind of man the country turns out.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
More Quotes By Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Shall we then judge a country by the majority, or by the minority? By the minority, surely. ‘Tis...
- The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
- To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart, is...
- As long as our civilization is essentially one of property, of fences, of exclusiveness, it will be mocked...
- Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.
- All inquiry into antiquity, all curiosity respecting the Pyramids, the excavated cities, Stonehenge, the Ohio Circles, Mexico, Memphis,–is...
- In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions...
- In the highest civilization the book is still the highest delight.
- Test of the poet is knowledge of love,
For Eros is older than Saturn or Jove;
Never was poet, of...
- Coal lay in ledges under the ground since the Flood, until a laborer with pick and windlass brings...
- By his machines man can dive and remain under water like a shark; can fly like a hawk...
- There is no true orator who is not a hero.
- The religions we call false were once true.
- Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.
- The true doctrine of omnipresence is, that God reappears with all his parts in every moss and cobweb.
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