Best Quotes by Margaret Fuller (Top 10)
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Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.
Margaret Fuller
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If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.
Margaret Fuller
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Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live.
Margaret Fuller
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Male and female represent the two sides of the great radical dualism. But in fact they are perpetually passing into one another. Fluid hardens to solid, solid rushes to fluid. There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman.
Margaret Fuller
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Very early, I knew that the only object in life was to grow
Margaret Fuller
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Nature provides exceptions to every rule.
Margaret Fuller
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I am suffocated and lost when I have not the bright feeling of progression.
Margaret Fuller
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Two persons love in one another the future good which they aid one another to unfold.
Margaret Fuller
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The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency.
Margaret Fuller
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Would that the simple maxim, that honesty is the best policy, might be laid to heart; that a sense of the true aim of life might elevate the tone of politics and trade till public and private honor become identical.
Margaret Fuller
More Margaret Fuller Quotes
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Essays, entitled critical, are epistles addressed to the public, through which the mind of the recluse relieves itself of its impressions.
Margaret Fuller
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I now know all the people worth knowing in America, and I find no intellect comparable to my own.
Margaret Fuller
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It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods.
Margaret Fuller
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Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking.
Margaret Fuller
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Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved.
Margaret Fuller
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Art can only be truly art by presenting an adequate outward symbol of some fact in the interior life.
Margaret Fuller
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A house is no home unless it contain food and fire for the mind as well as for the body.
Margaret Fuller
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It does not follow because many books are written by persons born in America that there exists an American literature. Books which imitate or represent the thoughts and life of Europe do not constitute an American literature. Before such can exist, an original idea must animate this nation and fresh currents of life must call into life fresh thoughts along the shore.
Margaret Fuller
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Be what you would seem to be - or, if you'd like it put more simply - a house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.
Margaret Fuller
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Genius will live and thrive without training, but it does not the less reward the watering pot and the pruning knife.
Margaret Fuller
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I have urged on woman independence of man, not that I do not think the sexes mutually needed by one another, but because in woman this fact has led to an excessive devotion, which has cooled love, degraded marriage and prevented it her sex from being what it should be to itself or the other. I wish woman to live, first for God's sake. Then she will not take what is not fit for her from a sense of weakness and poverty. Then if she finds what she needs in man embodied, she will know how to love and be worthy of being loved.
Margaret Fuller
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It is not because the touch of genius has roused genius to production, but because the admiration of genius has made talent ambitious, that the harvest is still so abundant.
Margaret Fuller