Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote

I cannot often enough say, that a man is only a relative and representative nature. Each is a hint of the truth, but far enough from being that truth, which yet he quite newly and inevitably suggests to us. If I seek it in him, I shall not find it.


Essays (ed. 2009)


I cannot often enough say, that a man is only a relative and representative nature. Each is a hint of the truth, but far enough from being that...

I cannot often enough say, that a man is only a relative and representative nature. Each is a hint of the truth, but far enough from being that...

I cannot often enough say, that a man is only a relative and representative nature. Each is a hint of the truth, but far enough from being that...

I cannot often enough say, that a man is only a relative and representative nature. Each is a hint of the truth, but far enough from being that...