Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
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What we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us.
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The greatest delight which the fields and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation.
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Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.
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Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant.
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Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.
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Every wall is a door.
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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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A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.
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Science does not know its debt to imagination.
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We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.
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Beauty without expression is boring.
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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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Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.
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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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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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There is more difference in the quality of our pleasures than in the amount.
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All diseases run into one, old age.
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Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.
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We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state.
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The wave of evil washes all our institutions alike.
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The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.
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We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.
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The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
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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.