One man's justice is another's injustice; one man's beauty, another's ugliness; one man's wisdom, another's folly
 Ralph Waldo Emerson, Circles (1841). copy citation

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Author Ralph Waldo Emerson
Source Circles
Topic ugliness wisdom
Date 1841
Language English
Reference in "Essays: First Series"
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Context

“The poor and the low have their way of expressing the last facts of philosophy as well as you. "Blessed be nothing," and "the worse things are, the better they are," are proverbs which express the transcendentalism of common life. One man's justice is another's injustice; one man's beauty, another's ugliness; one man's wisdom, another's folly; as one beholds the same objects from a higher point. One man thinks justice consists in paying debts, and has no measure in his abhorrence of another who is very remiss in this duty, and makes the creditor wait tediously.” source