Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Page 100

• There is nothing in history to parallel the influence of Jesus Christ.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Jesus, Influence, Christ

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.4069, Delphi Classics

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• All conservatives are such from personal defects. They have been effiminated by position of nature, born halt and blind, through luxury of their parents, and can only, like invalids, act on the defensive.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Luxury, Parent

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• The people fancy they hate poetry, and they are all poets and mystics.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Hate, People, Fancy

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Self-Reliance, the Over-Soul, and Other Essays”, p.75, Coyote Canyon Press

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• The most advanced nations are always those who navigate the most. The power which the sea requires in the sailor makes a man of him very fast, and the change of shores and population clears his head of much nonsense of his wigwam.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Sea, Population

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco, Joel Myerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.433, Harvard University Press

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• We pass for what we are. Character teaches above our wills. Men imagine that they communicate thier virtue or vice by overt actions, and do not see that virtue or vice emit a breath ever moment....One tendency unites them all. The voyage of the best ship is a zsig zag line of a hundred tacks. See the line from a sufficent distance and it straightens itslef to the average tendency.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Distance, Character, Men

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• Eloquence shows the power and possibility of man. There is one of whom we took no note, but on a certain occasion it appears that he has a secret virtue never suspected - that he can paint what has occurred and what must occur, with such clearness to a company, as if they saw it done before their eyes. By leading their thought he leads their will, and can make them do gladly what an hour ago they would not believe that they could be led to do at all.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Believe, Eye, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2582, Delphi Classics

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• Every thought is public,
  Every nook is wide;
  Thy gossips spread each whisper,
  And the gods from side to side.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Gossip, Sides, Spread

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1854). “Poems”, p.291

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• Yet things are knowable! They are knowable, because, being from one, things correspond. There is a scale: and the correspondence of heaven to earth, of matter to mind, of the part to the whole, is our guide. As there is a science of stars, called astronomy; and science of quantities, called mathematics; a science of qualities, called chemistry; so there is a science of sciences,--I call it Dialectic,--which is the Intellect discriminating the false and the true.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Stars, Knowledge, Heaven

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2000). “Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.534, Modern Library

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• Things admit of being used as symbols, because nature is a symbol, in the whole, and in every part.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Used, Symbols

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Self-Reliance, the Over-Soul, and Other Essays”, p.74, Coyote Canyon Press

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• God is our name for the last generalization to which we can arrive.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  God, Names, Lasts

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1969). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VII: 1838-1842”, p.40, Harvard University Press

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• He in whom the love of truth predominates . . . submits to the inconvenience of suspense and imperfect opinion; but he is a candidate for truth . . . and respects the highest law of his being.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Law, Imperfection

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1937). “Essays, First and Second Series”, p.109, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Great thoughts ensure musical expression.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Expression, Musical, Musical Expression

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1886). “The Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations...”

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• The Oversoul is before Time, and Time, Father of all else, is one of his children.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Children, Father, Soul

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• The best university that can be recommended to a man of ideas is the gauntlet of the mob.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Ideas, University

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.49, Harvard University Press

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• The near explains the far. The drop is a small ocean. A man is related to all nature. This perception of the worth of the vulgar is fruitful in discoveries. Goethe, in this very thing the most modern of the moderns, has shown us, as none ever did, the genius of the ancients.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Ocean, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Ernest Spiller, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Joseph Slater, Jean Ferguson Carr (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature, addresses, and lectures”, p.68, Harvard University Press

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• A philosopher must be more than a philosopher.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Philosophy, Philosopher

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.25

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• 'Tis a good rule in every journey to provide some piece of liberal study to rescue the hours which bad weather, bad company, and taverns steal from the best economist.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Journey, Weather, Taverns

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “English traits”, p.37

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• Action is the process whereby what is not fully formed passes into expressive consciousness.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Motivation, Action

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• If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Being Yourself, Character

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.505

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• Treat your friend as a spectacle.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friendship, Friends, Treats

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1993). “Self-reliance, and Other Essays”, p.47, Courier Corporation

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• And, in fine, the ancient precept, "Know thyself," and the modern precept, "Study nature," become at last one maxim.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Knowledge, Science, Self

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1850). “Nature: Addresses, and Lectures”, p.83

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• Each man has his own vocation; his talent is his call. There is one direction in which all space is open to him.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Freedom, Men, Space

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• Only by obedience to his genius; only by the freest activity in the way constitutional to him, does an angel seem to arise beforea man, and lead him by the hand out of all the wards of the prison.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Freedom, Angel, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1534, Delphi Classics

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• There was never a man born so wise or good, but one or more companions came into the world with him, who delight in his faculty, and report it. I cannot see without awe, that no man thinks alone and no man acts alone, but the divine assessors who came up with him into life,--now under one disguise, now under another,--like a police in citizen's clothes, walk with him, step for step, through all kingdoms of time.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wise, Greatness, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.435

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• Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact. Every appearance in nature corresponds to some state of the mind, and that state of the mind can only be described by presenting that natural appearance as its picture.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Spiritual, Nature, Swag

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2001). “Nature, Addresses and Lectures”, p.32, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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