Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
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The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.
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If a man own land, the land owns him.
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Every artist was first an amateur.
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Literature is the effort of man to indemnify himself for the wrongs of his condition.
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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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Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.
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The earth laughs in flowers.
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Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.
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The sublime is excited in me by the great stoical doctrine, Obey thyself.
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If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.
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Nature hates calculators.
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You must read Plato. But you must hold him at arm's length and say, 'Plato, you have delighted and edified mankind for two thousand years. What have you to say to me?'
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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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We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases.
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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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The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.
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Every experiment, by multitudes or by individuals, that has a sensual and selfish aim, will fail.
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Born for success he seemed, With grace to win, with heart to hold, With shining gifts that took all eyes.
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Without electricity, the air would rot.
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Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
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If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore, and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God which had been shown! But every night come out these envoys of beauty, and light the universe with their admonishing smile.
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People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.
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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.