Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
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In the vaunted works of Art The master stroke is Nature's part.
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Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves, but deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth.
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A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts: they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
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Classics which at home are drowsily read have a strange charm in a country inn, or in the transom of a merchant brig.
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Life is not so short but that there is always time enough for courtesy.
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Oh, tenderly the haughty day Fills his blue urn with fire.
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The blazing evidence of immortality is our dissatisfaction with any other solution.
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God said, I am tired of kings, I suffer them no more; Up to my ear the morning brings The outrage of the poor.
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As there is a use in medicine for poisons, so the world cannot move without rogues.
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Self-reliance, the height and perfection of man, is reliance on God.
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Shall I tell you the secret of the true scholar? It is this: Every man I meet is my master in some point, and in that I learn of him.
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In the vaunted works of Art The master-stroke is Nature's part. 5.
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Nor mourn the unalterable Days That Genius goes and Folly stays.
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There are men who astonish and delight, men who instruct and guide. Some men's words I remember so well that I must often use them to express my thought. Yes, because I perceive that we have heard the same truth, but they have heard it better.
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Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind and when the same thought occurs in another man, it is the key to that era.
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There are two laws discrete Not reconciled, Law for man, and law for thing.
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If eyes were made for seeing, Then Beauty is its own excuse for being.
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The word liberty in the mouth of Mr. Webster sounds like the word love in the mouth of a courtesan.
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We do not count a man's years until he has nothing else to count.
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Of course, he who has put forth his total strength in fit actions, has the richest return of wisdom.
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Alcohol, hashish, prussic acid, strychnine are weak dilutions. The surest poison is time.
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Raphael paints wisdom, Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakespeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt mechanizes it.
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How can he today’s writer be honored, when he does not honor himself; when he loses himself in the crowd; when he is no longer the lawgiver, but the sycophant, ducking to the giddy opinion of a reckless public.
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The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the aisles of Christian Rome, Wrought in a sad sincerity, Himself from God he could not free; He builded better than he knew, The conscious stone to beauty grew.