Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
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All diseases run into one, old age.
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Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.
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Genius always finds itself a century too early.
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There is more difference in the quality of our pleasures than in the amount.
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'Tis the good reader that makes the good book; in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakenly meant for his ear.
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Character is always known. Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls.
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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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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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Words are also actions, and actions are a kind of words.
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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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There are always two parties, the party of the Past and the party of the Future: the Establishment and the Movement. At times the resistance is reanimated, the schism runs under the world and appears in Literature, Philosophy, Church, State and social customs.
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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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No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.
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Every wall is a door.
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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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We do not yet possess ourselves, and we know at the same time that we are much more.
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For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.
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I have lost my mental faculties but am perfectly well.
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The faith that stands on authority is not faith.
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Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
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We are wiser than we know.
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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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Some of your hurts you have cured, And the sharpest you still have survived, But what torments of grief you endured From evils which never arrived!