Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
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We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Nature.
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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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Good men must not obey the laws too well.
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We acquire the strength we have overcome.
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It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the world can pay.
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The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.
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Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
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Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
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Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.
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Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.
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There is creative reading as well as creative writing.
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The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.
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With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.
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Every really able man, in whatever direction he work,-a man of large affairs, an inventor, a statesman, an orator, a poet, a painter,-if you talk sincerely with him, considers his work, however much admired, as far short of what it should be.
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In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.
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Every experiment, by multitudes or by individuals, that has a sensual and selfish aim, will fail.
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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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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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Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
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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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It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
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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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We are wiser than we know.
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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?'