Emerson instructed us to “Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your reading have been to you like the blast of truimpth out of Shakespeare, Seneca, Moses, John and Paul.”

Following Emerson’s guidance, I offer some of my favorite blasts of triumph. You can search by topic or by teacher or you can just hit refresh and keep getting 5 new random quotes below:-

• Death. The certain prospect of death could sweeten every life with a precious and fragrant drop of levity- and now you strange apothecary souls have turned it into an ill-tasting drop of poison that makes the whole of life repulsive.

  ~ Friedrich Nietzsche quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: Wisdom, Death, Life

• The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

  ~ Alan Kay quotes

  Inspirational Quotes on: Future, Best

• Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

  ~ Aldous Huxley quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: Wisdom, Truth

• To see things in the seed, that is genius.

  ~ Lao-tzu quotes

  Famous Quotes on: Genius

• There is about wisdom a nobility and magnificence in the fact that she doesn't just fall to a person's lot, that each man owes her to his own efforts, that one doesn't go to anyone other than oneself to find her.

  ~ Seneca quotes from Letters from a Stoic

  Inspirational Quotes on: Courage, Growth, Effort

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