Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
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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 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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There is always safety in valor.
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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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In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs.
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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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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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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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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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There is properly no history; only biography.
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Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.
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Every spirit makes its house, and we can give a shrewd guess from the house to the inhabitant.
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The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.
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In different hours, a man represents each of several of his ancestors, as if there were seven or eight of us rolled up in each man's skin, - seven or eight ancestors at least, - and they constitute the variety of notes for that new piece of music which his life is.
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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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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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Let us draw a lesson from nature, which always works by short ways. When the fruit is ripe, it falls.
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Beauty is the mark God sets upon virtue.
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Standing on the bare ground, - my head bathed by the blithe air, and uplifted into infinite space, - all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eye-ball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or particle of God.
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For the prevision is allied Unto the thing so signified; Or say, the foresight that awaits Is the same Genius that creates.
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The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.
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Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine, a possession for all time.
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People wish to be settled; only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them.
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Why need I volumes, if one word suffice?