Robert D. Richardson quotes
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“Part of the power of Emerson's individualism is his insistence, at crucial moments, that individualism does not mean isolation or self-sufficiency. This is not a paradox, for it is only the strong individual who can frankly concede the sometimes surprising extent of his own dependence.”
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“Just as science is more immediate and exciting than the history of science, so is insight more compelling than a history of insight.”
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“[Emerson] was interested not in the bookworm, not even in the thinker, only in Man Thinking.”
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“If death is the end of everything, then living is everything.”
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