Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes And Sayings

Our Admiration Of The Antique Is Not Admiration Of The Old, But Of The Natural.

I Have No Hostility To Nature, But A Child's Love To It. I Expand And Live In The Warm Day Like Corn And Melons.

Mysticism Is The Mistake Of An Accidental And Individual Symbol For An Universal One.

The Reason Why Men Do Not Obey Us, Is Because They See The Mud At The Bottom Of Our Eye.

The Health Of The Eye Seems To Demand A Horizon. We Are Never Tired, So Long As We Can See Far Enough.

The Only Way To Have A Friend Is To Be One.

If The Tongue Had Not Been Framed For Articulation, Man Would Still Be A Beast In The Forest.

The Intuition Of The Moral Sentiment Is An Insight Of The Perfection Of The Laws Of The Soul. These Laws Execute Themselves. They Are Out Of Time, Out Of Space, And Not Subject To Circumstance.

A More Secret, Sweet, And Overpowering Beauty Appears To Man When His Heart And Mind Open To The Sentiment Of Virtue.

America Is A Poem In Our Eyes; Its Ample Geography Dazzles The Imagination, And It Will Not Wait Long For Metres.

Without Electricity, The Air Would Rot.

The Vegetable Life Does Not Content Itself With Casting From The Flower Or The Tree A Single Seed, But It Fills The Air And Earth With A Prodigality Of Seeds, That, If Thousands Perish, Thousands May Plant Themselves, That Hundreds May Come Up, That Tens May Live To Maturity; That, At Least One May Replace The Parent.

A Man Builds A Fine House; And Now He Has A Master, And A Task For Life: He Is To Furnish, Watch, Show It, And Keep It In Repair, The Rest Of His Days.

As We Are, So We Associate. The Good, By Affinity, Seek The Good; The Vile, By Affinity, The Vile. Thus Of Their Own Volition, Souls Proceed Into Heaven, Into Hell.

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.'

All Mankind Love A Lover.

The Years Teach Much Which The Days Never Know.

Judge Of Your Natural Character By What You Do In Your Dreams.

Our Chief Want Is Someone Who Will Inspire Us To Be What We Know We Could Be.

Character Is Higher Than Intellect. A Great Soul Will Be Strong To Live As Well As Think.

He Who Is Not Everyday Conquering Some Fear Has Not Learned The Secret Of Life.

Nature And Books Belong To The Eyes That See Them.

Good Men Must Not Obey The Laws Too Well.

The Best Effort Of A Fine Person Is Felt After We Have Left Their Presence.

Wisdom Has Its Root In Goodness, Not Goodness Its Root In Wisdom.

We Acquire The Strength We Have Overcome.

We Are Symbols, And Inhabit Symbols.

If The Stars Should Appear But One Night Every Thousand Years How Man Would Marvel And Stare.

Every Particular In Nature, A Leaf, A Drop, A Crystal, A Moment Of Time Is Related To The Whole, And Partakes Of The Perfection Of The Whole.

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.

Why Need I Volumes, If One Word Suffice?

We See God Face To Face Every Hour, And Know The Savor Of Nature.

Every Man Has His Own Courage, And Is Betrayed Because He Seeks In Himself The Courage Of Other Persons.

There Are Other Measures Of Self-respect For A Man, Than The Number Of Clean Shirts He Puts On Every Day.

I Hate Quotations. Tell Me What You Know.

Fate Is Nothing But The Deeds Committed In A Prior State Of Existence.

Make The Most Of Yourself, For That Is All There Is Of You.

One Must Be An Inventor To Read Well. There Is Then Creative Reading As Well As Creative Writing.

We Find Delight In The Beauty And Happiness Of Children That Makes The Heart Too Big For The Body.

People That Seem So Glorious Are All Show; Underneath They Are Like Everyone Else.

Great Geniuses Have The Shortest Biographies.

When We Quarrel, How We Wish We Had Been Blameless.

Don't Be Too Timid And Squeamish About Your Actions. All Life Is An Experiment.

Beauty Is An Outward Gift, Which Is Seldom Despised, Except By Those To Whom It Has Been Refused.

An Ounce Of Action Is Worth A Ton Of Theory.

There Is Creative Reading As Well As Creative Writing.

Some Books Leave Us Free And Some Books Make Us Free.

As Soon As There Is Life There Is Danger.

Doing Well Is The Result Of Doing Good. That's What Capitalism Is All About.

Every Man I Meet Is In Some Way My Superior.