Ralph Waldo Emerson : (13) " Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense. " - 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 " The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization. " - Ralph Waldo Emerson " Who you are speaks so loudly I can’t hear what you’re saying. " - Ralph Waldo Emerson " Life is our dictionary. " - Ralph Waldo Emerson " What we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us. " - Ralph Waldo Emerson " The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself. " - Ralph Waldo Emerson " Every artist was first an amateur. " - Ralph Waldo Emerson " It is not length of life, but depth of life. " - Ralph Waldo Emerson " The sky is the daily bread of the eyes. " - Ralph Waldo Emerson