Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
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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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Revolutions go not backward.
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To be great is to be misunderstood.
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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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Fear not, then, thou child infirm, There's no god dare wrong a worm.
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Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.
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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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Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self?
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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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Wilt thou seal up the avenues of ill? Pay every debt as if God wrote the bill.
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Nature magically suits the man to his fortunes, by making these the fruit of his character.
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Too busy with the crowded hour to fear to live or die.
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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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People that seem so glorious are all show; underneath they are like everyone else.
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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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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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Use what language you will, you can never say anything but what you are.
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The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.
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They reckon ill who leave me out; When me they fly, I am the wings; I am the doubter and the doubt; And I the hymn the Brahmin sings.
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The profit of books is according to the sensibility of the reader. The profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine until an equal mind and heart finds and publishes it.
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Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.
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Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.
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A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts.
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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.