Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes About Madness

• Sanity is very rare; every man almost and every woman has a dash of madness.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Funny, Men, Insanity

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• If you have a nation of men who have risen to that height of moral cultivation that they will not declare war or carry arms, for they have not so much madness left in their brains, you have a nation of lovers, of benefactors, of true, great, and able men.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  War, Men, Brain

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1905). “The Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”

• We know that madness belongs to love,--what power to paint a vile object in hues of heaven.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Power, Heaven

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.423, Harvard University Press

• If any mention was made of homicide, madness, adultery, and intolerable tortures, we would let the church-bells ring louder, the church-organ swell its peal and drown the hideous sound. The sugar they raised was excellent: nobody tasted blood in it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Church Bells, Blood, Sound

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco, Joel Myerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.277, Harvard University Press

• Fear is cruel and mean. The political reigns of terror have been reigns of madness and malignity,--a total perversion of opinion;society is upside down, and its best men are thought too bad to live.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Fear, Mean, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.130, Harvard University Press

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