Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
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People that seem so glorious are all show; underneath they are like everyone else.
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Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.
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Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.
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Talents differ; all is well and wisely put; If I cannot carry forests on my back, Neither can you crack a nut.
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Life is too short to waste The critic bite or cynic bark, Quarrel, or reprimand; 'Twill soon be dark; Up! mind thine own aim, and God speed the mark!
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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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Fear not, then, thou child infirm, There's no god dare wrong a worm.
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Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.
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Always do what you are afraid to do.
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The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.
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Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self?
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Henceforward I am the truth's. Be it known unto you that henceforward I obey no law less than the eternal law. I will have no covenants but proximities.
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To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom.
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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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Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.
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Every burned book enlightens the world.
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Don't say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.
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Of what use is genius, if the organ is too convex or too concave and cannot find a focal distance within the actual horizon of human life?
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Seeing only what is fair, Sipping only what is sweet, Thou dost mock at fate and care.
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A mollusk is a cheap edition of man with a suppression of the costlier illustrations, designed for dingy circulation, for shelving in an oyster-bank or among the seaweed.
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The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough.
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Too busy with the crowded hour to fear to live or die.
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Nature magically suits the man to his fortunes, by making these the fruit of his character.
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Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.