Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
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To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
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The best university that can be recommended to a man of ideas is the gauntlet of the mobs.
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The world is nothing, the man is all; in yourself is the law of all nature, and you know not yet how a globule of sap ascends; in yourself slumbers the whole of Reason; it is for you to know all, it is for you to dare all.
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For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.
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Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.
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There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.
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What is a farm but a mute gospel?
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Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
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Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world.
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Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier.
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Make yourself necessary to somebody.
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I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
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The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.
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Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none.
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Two may talk and one may hear, but three cannot take part in a conversation of the most sincere and searching sort.
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A man is a method, a progressive arrangement; a selecting principle, gathering his like to him; wherever he goes.
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A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
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We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
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The ancestor of every action is a thought.
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We are, like Nebuchadnezzar, dethroned, bereft of reason, and eating grass like an ox.
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Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.
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Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
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I am ashamed to see what a shallow village tale our so-called History is.
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What potent blood hath modest May!