Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
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Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.
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Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.
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Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.
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Pictures must not be too picturesque.
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Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant.
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A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.
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All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
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The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.
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Without electricity, the air would rot.
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Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.
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Love not the flower they pluck and know it not, And all their botany is Latin names.
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Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich.
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He is great who is what he is from Nature, and who never reminds us of others.
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What we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us.
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In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.
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It is not length of life, but depth of life.
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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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Nature hates calculators.
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The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.
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Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.