Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
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The only way to have a friend is to be one.
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Hitch your wagon to a star.
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Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.
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What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.
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Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.
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Men are what their mothers made them.
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There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.
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A man is a bundle of relations, a knot of roots, whose flower and fruitage is the world.
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Life only avails, not the having lived. Power ceases in the instant of repose; it resides in the moment of transition from a past to a new state, in the shooting of the gulf, in the darting to an aim.
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O tenderly the haughty day Fills his blue urn with fire; One morn is in the mighty heaven, And one in our desire.
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A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
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Philosophically considered, the universe is composed of Nature and the Soul. Strictly speaking, therefore, all that is separate from us, all which Philosophy distinguishes as the 'Not Me,' that is, both nature and art, all other men and my own body, must be ranked under this name, 'Nature.'
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Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
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There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm. We wake from one dream into another dream.
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Love not the flower they pluck and know it not, And all their botany is Latin names.
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Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste.
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Speak the truth, and all things alive or brute are vouchers, and the very roots of the grass underground there, do seem to stir and move to bear you witness.
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The ancestor of every action is a thought.
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A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.
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Beauty is the mark God sets upon virtue.
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We aim above the mark to hit the mark.
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We must be our own before we can be another's.
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Olympian bards who sung Divine Ideas below, Which always find us young, And always keep us so.
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The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself.