Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
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A good symbol is the best argument, and is a missionary to persuade thousands.
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Yet a man may love a paradox, without losing either his wit or his honesty.
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In how many churches, by how many prophets, tell me, is man made sensible that he is an infinite Soul; that the earth and heavens are passing into his mind; that he is drinking forever the soul of God?
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Good-bye, proud world! I’m going home: Thou art not my friend, and I’m not thine.
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The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
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Good is a good doctor, but Bad is sometimes a better.
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All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.
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The most advanced nations are always those who navigate the most.
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The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.
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Whoever fights, whoever falls, Justice conquers evermore.
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A masterpiece of art has in the mind a fixed place in the chain of being, as much as a plant or a crystal.
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And striving to be man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form.
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Ever from one who comes to-morrow Men wait their good and truth to borrow.
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If I could put my hand on the north star, would it be as beautiful? The sea is lovely, but when we bathe in it, the beauty forsakes all the near water. For the imagination and senses cannot be gratified at the same time.
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Almost all people descend to meet.
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Give all to love; Obey thy heart; Friends, kindred, days, Estate, good fame, Plans, credit, and the muse; Nothing refuse.
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In this distribution of functions, the scholar is the delegated intellect. In the right state, he is, Man Thinking. In the degenerate state, when the victim of society, he tends to become a mere thinker, or, still worse, the parrot of other men's thinking.
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I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.
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He needs no library, for he has not done thinking; no church, for he is himself a prophet; no statute book, for he hath the Lawgiver; no money, for he is value itself; no road, for he is at home where he is.
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The manly part is to do with might and main what you can do.
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To-day unbind the captive, So only are ye unbound; Lift up a people from the dust, Trump of their rescue, sound!
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The measure of action is the sentiment from which it proceeds. The greatest action may easily be one of the most private circumstance.
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Respect the child. Be not too much his parent. Trespass not on his solitude.
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If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him. 6.