Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
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Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes.
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The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.
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The years teach much which the days never know.
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Nature hates calculators.
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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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Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.
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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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With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.
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As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.
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Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.
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A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking.
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No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.
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Genius always finds itself a century too early.
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Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.
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All diseases run into one, old age.
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Every wall is a door.
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Mysticism is the mistake of an accidental and individual symbol for an universal one.
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We cannot overstate our debt to the Past, but the moment has the supreme claim. The Past is for us; but the sole terms on which it can become ours are its subordination to the Present. Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should be an inventor. We must not tamper with the organic motion of the soul.
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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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Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practising every day while they live.
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Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
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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 is a tendency for things to right themselves.
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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.