Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
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One man's justice is another's injustice; one man's beauty another's ugliness; one man's wisdom another's folly.
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If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.
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We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases.
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The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.
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Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact.
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The sublime is excited in me by the great stoical doctrine, Obey thyself.
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By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote.
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You must read Plato. But you must hold him at arm's length and say, 'Plato, you have delighted and edified mankind for two thousand years. What have you to say to me?'
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If a man own land, the land owns him.
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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 is always safety in valor.
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We boil at different degrees.
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Whoso walketh in solitude, And inhabiteth the wood, Choosing light, wave, rock, and bird, Before the money-loving herd, Into that forester shall pass From these companions power and grace.
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People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.
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Nature magically suits the man to his fortunes, by making these the fruit of his character.
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Good bye, proud world! I'm going home; Thou art not my friend; I am not thine.
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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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The intuition of the moral sentiment is an insight of the perfection of the laws of the soul. These laws execute themselves. They are out of time, out of space, and not subject to circumstance.
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It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances.
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I think we must get rid of slavery, or we must get rid of freedom.
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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
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Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.
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We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.
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Not from a vain or shallow thought His awful Jove young Phidias brought.