The mind does not create what it perceives, any more than the eye creates the rose.


The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life (ed. 1872)


The mind does not create what it perceives, any more than the eye creates the rose.

The mind does not create what it perceives, any more than the eye creates the rose.

The mind does not create what it perceives, any more than the eye creates the rose.

The mind does not create what it perceives, any more than the eye creates the rose.