The key to every man is his thought, sturdy and defying though he looks, has a helm which he obeys, which is the idea after which all his facts are classified. He can only be reformed by showing him a

These past few months, as I find a particular aesthetic emphasis on specific input to AI GANs - old master's works, generally Western ideals - I start to wonder if the body of knowledge in this field is

Nature is always consistent, though she feigns to contravene her own laws. She keeps her laws, and seems to transcend them. She arms and equips an animal to find its place and living in the earth, and

It is in vain that we look for genius in the old arts; it is its instinct to find beauty and holiness in new and necessary facts, in the field and roadside, in the shop and mill. From Art, Essays First

"Ah!" said a brave painter to me, thinking on these things. "If a man has failed you will find he has dreamed instead of working. There is no way to success in our art but to take off your

What is the use of the concert of the false and disunited? There can be no concert in two, where there is no concert in one. When the individual is not individual, but dual; when his thoughts look one

I have learned that I cannot dispose of other people's facts; but I possess such a key to my own, as persuades me against all their denials, that they also have a key to theirs. A sympathetic person is

When the artist has exhausted his materials, when the fancy no longer paints, when thoughts are no longer apprehended and books are a weariness, - he has always the resource to live. From The American

Wit is cheap, and anger is cheap, but if you cannot argue or explain yourself to the other party, cleave to the truth, against me, against thee, and you gain a situation from which you cannot be dislodged.

Skepticism is unbelief in cause and effect. ... As we are, so we do; and as we do, so it is done to us; we are the builders of our fortunes; cant and lying and the attempt to secure a good which does not

What if you shall come to discern that the play and playground of all this pompous history are radiations from yourself, and that the sun borrows its beams?" From Illusions, Essays, The Conduct of

I now require this of all pictures, that they domesticate me, not that they dazzle me. Pictures must not be too picturesque. From Art, Essays, First Series by Ralph Waldo Emerson Earlier in the essay,

All our science lacks a human side. From Beauty, Essays, Second Series by Ralph Waldo Emerson For at least as long as I have been eligible to vote, health and health care is on the minds of politicians

How long before our masquerade will end its noise of tambourines, laughter and shouting, and we shall find it was a solitary performance? From Experience, Essays, Second Series by Ralph Waldo Emerson This

The blue zenith is the point in which romance and reality meet. I think, if we should be rapt away into all that we dream of heaven, and should converse with Gabriel and Uriel, the upper sky would be all

The reason of idleness and of crime is the deferring of our hopes. Whilst we are waiting we beguile the time with jokes, with sleep, with eating, and with crimes. From Nominalist and Realist, Essays, Second

Is it any better, if the student, to avoid this offense and liberalize himself, aims to make a mechanical whole of history, or science, or philosophy, bring a numerical addition of all the facts that fall

The conditions essential to a constructive mind do not appear to be so often combined but that a good sentence or verse remains fresh and memorable for a long time. Yet when we write with ease, and come

We say, I will walk abroad, and the truth will take form and clearness for me. We go forth, but cannot find it. It seems as if we needed only the stillness and composed attitude of the library to seize

There is guidance for each of us, and by lowly listening we shall hear the right word. From Spiritual Laws from Essays, First Series by Ralph Waldo Emerson Recently, I hear my own words coming back at