Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
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The reward of a thing well done is having done it.
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One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing.
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Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated.
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Philosophically considered, the universe is composed of Nature and the Soul. Strictly speaking, therefore, all that is separate from us, all which Philosophy distinguishes as the 'Not Me,' that is, both nature and art, all other men and my own body, must be ranked under this name, 'Nature.'
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Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.
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Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.
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Pictures must not be too picturesque.
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Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.
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Cause and effect are two sides of one fact.
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An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.
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We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.
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Every man I meet is in some way my superior.
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Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.
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Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.
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Every wall is a door.
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No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.
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America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.
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The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.
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The state of society is one in which the members have suffered amputation from the trunk, and strut about so many walking monsters,-a good finger, a neck, a stomach, an elbow, but never a man.
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Speak the truth, and all things alive or brute are vouchers, and the very roots of the grass underground there, do seem to stir and move to bear you witness.
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I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.
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Nothing external to you has any power over you.
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The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.
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We have listened too long to the courtly Muses of Europe.