Quotes from Margaret Fuller
I now know all the people worth knowing in America and I find no intellect comparable to my own.
— Margaret Fuller
Yet, by men in this country, as by the Jews, when Moses was leading them to the promised land, everything has been done that inherited depravity could do, to hinder the promise of Heaven from its fulfilment. The cross, here as elsewhere, has been planted only to be blasphemed by cruelty and fraud.
— Margaret Fuller
Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.
— Margaret Fuller
It is a vulgar error that love, a love, to woman is her whole existence; she is born for Truth and Love in their universal energy
— Margaret Fuller
The man of science dissects the statement, verifies the facts, and demonstrates connection even where he cannot its purpose.
— Margaret Fuller
Accursed be he who willingly saddens an immortal spirit---doomed to infamy in later, wiser ages, doomed in future stages of his own being to deadly penance, only short of death.
— Margaret Fuller
Two persons love in one another the future good which they aid one another to unfold.
— Margaret Fuller
Nature provides exceptions to every rule.
— Margaret Fuller
Art can only be truly Art by presenting an adequate outward symbol of some fact in the interior life.
— Margaret Fuller
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 its shores.
— Margaret Fuller
There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman.
— Margaret Fuller
Truth is the first of jewels.
— Margaret Fuller