Tuesday, December 29, 2009

“Man is not a farmer, or a professor, or an engineer, but he is all. Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier. In the divided or social state, these functions are parceled out to individuals, each of whom aims to do his stint of the joint work, whilst each other performs his…The state of society is one in which the members have suffered amputation from the trunk, and strut about so many walking monsters — a good finger, a neck, a stomach, an elbow, but never a man.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson

3 comments:

LC said...

Good quote. I'm going to have to digest that for awhile. Loved your Christmas blog and photos.

Laura said...

Ralph Waldo Emmerson is one of my favorite's, next to Thoreau.

Janette said...

Wow! I'm trying to figure out which appendage I am and how I can reattach.