Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
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Whatever limits us we call Fate.
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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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Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.
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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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Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.
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It is the fault of our rhetoric that we cannot strongly state one fact without seeming to belie some other.
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Self-trust is the first secret of success.
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Heartily know, When half-gods go, The gods arrive.
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You shall have joy, or you shall have power, said God; you shall not have both.
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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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Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.
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The young men were born with knives in their brain, a tendency to introversion, self-dissection, anatomizing of motives.
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A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud.
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None believeth in the soul of man, but only in some man or person old and departed.
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The soul is subject to dollars.
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Leave this hypocritical prating about the masses. Masses are rude, lame, unmade, pernicious in their demands and influence, and need not to be flattered, but to be schooled. I wish not to concede anything to them, but to tame, drill, divide, and break them up, and draw individuals out of them.
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The soul active sees absolute truth; and utters truth, or creates.
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The method of nature: who could ever analyze it?
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I owed a magnificent day to the Bhagavad Gita. It was the first of books; it was as if an empire spoke to us, nothing small or unworthy, but large, serene, consistent, the voice of an old intelligence which in another age and climate had pondered and thus disposed of the same questions which exercise us.
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God will not have his work made manifest by cowards
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Great men or men of great gifts you shall easily find, but symmetrical men never.
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It costs a beautiful person no exertion to paint her image on our eyes; yet how splendid is that benefit! It costs no more for a wise soul to convey his quality to other men.
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God may forgive sins, he said, but awkwardness has no forgiveness in heaven or earth.
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Nature abhors the old, and old age seems the only disease; all others run into this one.