Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
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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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Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.
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The earth laughs in flowers.
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Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.
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We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state.
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The sublime is excited in me by the great stoical doctrine, Obey thyself.
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Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.
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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 fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all.
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We acquire the strength we have overcome.
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Science does not know its debt to imagination.
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Literature is the effort of man to indemnify himself for the wrongs of his condition.
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Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.
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If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.
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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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Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
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Without electricity, the air would rot.
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If a man own land, the land owns him.
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Nature hates calculators.
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The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.
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Whoso walketh in solitude, And inhabiteth the wood, Choosing light, wave, rock, and bird, Before the money-loving herd, Into that forester shall pass From these companions power and grace.
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A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.
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It is not length of life, but depth of life.
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Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.