Waldo

Famous quotes containing the word waldo:

    Democracy is morose, and runs to anarchy, but in the state, and in the schools, it is indispensable to resist the consolidation of all men into a few men.
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    Machinery is aggressive. The weaver becomes a web, the machinist a machine. If you do not use the tools, they use you. All tools are in one sense edge-tools, and dangerous.
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    But it is impossible that the creative power should exclude itself. Into every intelligence there is a door which is never closed, through which the creator passes.
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)