Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet, namely, a dull ending.Karl Marx
The intuition of the moral sentiment is an insight of the perfection of the laws of the soul. These laws execute themselves. They are out of time, out of space, and not subject to circumstance.Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Good is positive. Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of heat. All evil is so much death or nonentity. Benevolence is absolute and real. So much benevolence as a man hath, so much life hath he.Ralph Waldo Emerson
It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature.Henry David Thoreau
