Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
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Words are also actions, and actions are a kind of words.
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The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.
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Good men must not obey the laws too well.
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With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.
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Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.
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Discontent is the want of self-reliance: it is infirmity of will.
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People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.
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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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If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore, and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God which had been shown! But every night come out these envoys of beauty, and light the universe with their admonishing smile.
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It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the world can pay.
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But genius looks forward: the eyes of men are set in his forehead, not in his hindhead: man hopes: genius creates.
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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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In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.
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Language is the archives of history … Language is fossil poetry.
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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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Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.
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'Tis the good reader that makes the good book; in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakenly meant for his ear.
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Children are all foreigners.
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We boil at different degrees.
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Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.
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Some of your hurts you have cured, And the sharpest you still have survived, But what torments of grief you endured From evils which never arrived!
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There is a tendency for things to right themselves.
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Beauty is the mark God sets upon virtue.
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I regard it as the irresistible effect of the Copernican astronomy to have made the theological scheme of redemption absolutely incredible