Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote

For the existing world is not a dream, and cannot with impunity be treated as a dream; neither is it a disease; but it is the ground on which you stand, it is the mother of whom you were born.


Nature: An Essay ; And, Lectures on the Times (ed. 1844)


For the existing world is not a dream, and cannot with impunity be treated as a dream; neither is it a disease; but it is the ground on which you...

For the existing world is not a dream, and cannot with impunity be treated as a dream; neither is it a disease; but it is the ground on which you...

For the existing world is not a dream, and cannot with impunity be treated as a dream; neither is it a disease; but it is the ground on which you...

For the existing world is not a dream, and cannot with impunity be treated as a dream; neither is it a disease; but it is the ground on which you...