Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
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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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The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
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Beauty without expression is boring.
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I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared 'that the sense of being perfectly well-dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquility which religion is powerless to bestow'.
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Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant.
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Jesus Christ belonged to the true race of prophets. He saw with open eye the mystery of the soul. Drawn by its severe harmony, ravished with its beauty, he lived in it and had his being there. Alone in all history, he estimated the greatness of man.
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The greatest delight which the fields and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation.
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Science does not know its debt to imagination.
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The wave of evil washes all our institutions alike.
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Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.
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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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What we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us.
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A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life: he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.
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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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We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.
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As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.
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Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.
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The highest compact we can make with our fellow, is, - 'Let there be truth between us two forevermore'.
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There is more difference in the quality of our pleasures than in the amount.
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Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.
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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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Every fact is related on one side to sensation, and, on the other, to morals. The game of thought is, on the appearance of one of these two sides, to find the other: given the upper, to find the under side.
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We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state.
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The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.