Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
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Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
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The sublime is excited in me by the great stoical doctrine, Obey thyself.
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We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases.
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Words are also actions, and actions are a kind of words.
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It is my desire, in the office of a Christian minister, to do nothing which I cannot do with my whole heart. Having said this, I have said all.
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There are always two parties, the party of the Past and the party of the Future: the Establishment and the Movement. At times the resistance is reanimated, the schism runs under the world and appears in Literature, Philosophy, Church, State and social customs.
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For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.
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O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.
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Discontent is the want of self-reliance: it is infirmity of will.
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When we quarrel, how we wish we had been blameless.
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Every really able man, in whatever direction he work,-a man of large affairs, an inventor, a statesman, an orator, a poet, a painter,-if you talk sincerely with him, considers his work, however much admired, as far short of what it should be.
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We are wiser than we know.
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In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.
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The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.
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And when his hours are numbered, and the world Is all his own, retiring, as he were not, Leaves, when the sun appears, astonished Art To mimic in slow structures, stone by stone Built in an age, the mad wind's night-work, The frolic architecture of the snow.
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Solvency is maintained by means of a national debt, on the principle, 'If you will not lend me the money, how can I pay you?'
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He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.
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Born for success he seemed, With grace to win, with heart to hold, With shining gifts that took all eyes.
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A man is a golden impossibility. The line he must walk is a hair's breadth. The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.
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There is a tendency for things to right themselves.
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Thou animated torrid-zone.
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Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practising every day while they live.
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Every particular in nature, a leaf, a drop, a crystal, a moment of time is related to the whole, and partakes of the perfection of the whole.
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The highest revelation is that God is in every man.