Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote

The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny.


The Natural History of Intellect (1893).


The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny.

The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny.

The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny.

The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny.