Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote

The vocabulary of an omniscient man would embrace words and images excluded from polite conversation. What would be base, or even obscene, to the obscene, becomes illustrious, spoken in a new connexion of thought.


The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays, 2d series (ed. 1876)


The vocabulary of an omniscient man would embrace words and images excluded from polite conversation. What would be base, or even obscene, to the...

The vocabulary of an omniscient man would embrace words and images excluded from polite conversation. What would be base, or even obscene, to the...

The vocabulary of an omniscient man would embrace words and images excluded from polite conversation. What would be base, or even obscene, to the...

The vocabulary of an omniscient man would embrace words and images excluded from polite conversation. What would be base, or even obscene, to the...