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Quotes from Emerson: The Mind on Fire — Robert D. Richardson

1934–2020 United States

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To the question "What is God?" he now replies, "the most elevated conception of character that can be formed in the mind. It is the individual's own soul carried out to perfection."

Emerson: The Mind on Fire (1995)

If there is a single moment … to give meaning to Emerson's life, it would be this moment when he recognized that his proper response to the world must be astonishment, his proper expression celebration.

Emerson: The Mind on Fire (1995)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Robert D. Richardson (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.