Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Page 58

• Nothing can work damage to me except myself; the harm that I sustain I carry about with me and never am a real sufferer except by my own fault.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Real, Damage, Faults

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.301, Library of America

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• The life of labor does not make men, but drudges.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Work, Men, Doe

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edward Waldo Emerson, Waldo Emerson Forbes (1911). “Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1820-1872 [1876] Ed”

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• A poem, a sentence, causes us to see ourselves. I be, and I see my being, at the same time.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Writing, Causes, Sentences

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1960). “The Journals”

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• In youth, we clothe ourselves with rainbows, and go as brave as the zodiac.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Zodiac, Rainbow, Brave

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.423, Harvard University Press

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• Between cultivated minds the first interview is the best.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Mind, Interviews, Firsts

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Porte (1982). “Emerson in His Journals”, p.140, Harvard University Press

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• There is no calamity that right words will not begin to redress

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Redress, Calamity, Right Words

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• Remarkable trait in the American Character is the union, not very infrequent, of Yankee cleverness with spiritualism.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Character, Yankees, Unions

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Porte (1982). “Emerson in His Journals”, p.378, Harvard University Press

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• Conversation is a game of circles.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Games, Circles, Conversation

  'Essays' (1841) 'Circles'

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• Art and power will go on as they have done,--will make day out of night, time out of space, and space out of time.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Night, Destiny

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2461, Delphi Classics

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• It has come to be practically a sort of rule in literature that a man, having once shown himself capable of original writing, is entitled thenceforth to steal from the writings of others at discretion.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Writing, Men, Literature

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.715, Library of America

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• In eloquence, the great triumphs of the art are when the orator is lifted above himself; when consciously he makes himself the mere tongue of the occasion and the hour, and says what cannot but be said. Hence the term "abandonment" to describe the self- surrender of the orator. Not his will, but the principle on which he is horsed, the great connection and crisis of events, thunder in the ear of the crowd.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Self, Triumph

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.25, Harvard University Press

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• The pleasure of eloquence is in greatest part owing often to the stimulus of the occasion which produces it- - to the magic of sympathy, which exalts the feeling of each by radiating on him the feeling of all.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Feelings, Magic, Owing

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “Culture, Behavior, Beauty: Books, Art Eloquence. Power, Wealth, Illusions”

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• A man is the prisoner of his power. A topical memory makes him an almanac; a talent for debate, disputant; skill to get money makes him a miser, that is, a beggar. Culture reduces these inflammations by invoking the aid of other powers against the dominant talent, and by appealing to the rank of powers. It watches success.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Memories, Power, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.363

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• I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Clever, Hate, Book

  Journal, May 1849

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• We are wiser than we know.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Educational, Frustrated, Wiser

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1982). “Emerson: Selected Essays”, p.174, Penguin

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• The lessons of science should be experimental also. The sight of a planet through a telescope is worth all the course on astronomy; the shock of the electric spark in the elbow outvalues all theories; the taste of the nitrous oxide, the firing of an artificial volcano, are better than volumes of chemistry.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Science, Volcanoes, Sight

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.280, Harvard University Press

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• Nature may be as selfishly studied as trade. Astronomy to the selfish becomes astrology; psychology, mesmerism (with intent to show where aour spoons are gone); and anatomy and physiology become phrenology and palmistry.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Selfish, Science

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Emerson's Essays: Top Essays”, p.102, 谷月社

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• Astronomy is a cold, desert science, with all its pompous figures,-depends a little too much on the glass-grinder, too little on the mind. 'T is of no use to show us more planets and systems. We know already what matter is, and more or less of it does not signify.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Science, What Matters, Glasses

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edward Waldo Emerson (1904). “The complete works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”

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• Science surpasses the old miracles of mythology.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Science, Miracle, Mythology

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2621, Delphi Classics

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• Our best history is still poetry.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  History, Best History, Stills

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.99, Harvard University Press

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• A woman should always challenge our respect, and never move our compassion.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Respect, Moving, Compassion

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1954). “Basic Selections from Emerson: Essays, Poems & Apothegms”

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• Fate, then, is a name for facts not yet passed under the fire of thought; for causes which are unpenetrated.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Fate, Destiny, Fire

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.87, Penguin

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• Why should we not have a first-hand and immediate experience of God?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Spiritual, Hands, Firsts

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• For it is only the finite that has wrought and suffered; the infinite lies stretched in smiling repose.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Spiritual, Lying, Infinite

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2005). “The Selected Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.34, University of Georgia Press

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• A little consideration of what takes place around us every day would show us that a higher law than that of our will regulates events; that our painful labors are unnecessary and fruitless; that only in our easy, simple, spontaneous action are we strong . . . . Place yourself in the middle of the stream of power and wisdom which animates all whom it floats, and you are without effort impelled to truth, to right, and a perfect contentment.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Strong, Powerful, Simple

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.309, Library of America

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