Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Page 66

• It depends little on the object, much on the mood, in art.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Littles, Mood

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1969). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VII: 1838-1842”, p.46, Harvard University Press

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• Character is higher than intellect. Thinking is the function; living is the functionary.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Character, Thinking, Function

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2004). “A Dream Too Wild: Emerson Meditations for Every Day of the Year”, p.12, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

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• No man gains credit for his cowardly courtesies.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Credit, Gains

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1963). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.321, Harvard University Press

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• Instead of making Christianity a vehicle of truth, you make truth only a horse for Christianity.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Christian, Horse, Christianity

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1964). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.45, Harvard University Press

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• Cities degrade us by magnifying trifles.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Cities, Trifles, Magnifying

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.396

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• What is the city in which we sit here, but an aggregate of incongruous materials, which have obeyed the will of some man?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Cities, Materials

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.424, Harvard University Press

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• The great majority of men grow up and grow old in seeming and following.

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  Growing Up, Men, Majority

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.3928, Delphi Classics

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• What is civilization? I answer, the power of good women.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Civilization, Good Woman, Answers

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1911). “The Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson ...: v.1-”

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• My own mind is the direct revelation which I have from God and far least liable to mistake in telling his will of any revelation.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Mistake, Mind, Revelations

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2014). “The Heart of Emerson's Journals”, p.53, Courier Corporation

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• A sympathetic person is placed in the dilemma of a swimmer among drowning men, who all catch at him, and if he gives so much as a leg or a finger, they will drown him.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sympathy, Men, Giving

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.203

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• Man sheds grief as his skin sheds rain.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Grief, Rain, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.4053, Delphi Classics

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• War educates the senses, calls into action the will, perfects the physical constitution, brings men into such swift and close collision in critical moments that man measures man.

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  War, Men, Saving Private Ryan

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2970, Delphi Classics

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• War, to sane men at the present day, begins to look like an epidemic insanity, breaking out here and there like the cholera or influenza, infecting men's brains instead of their bowels.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  War, Men, Epidemics

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2970, Delphi Classics

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• A man cannot speak but he judges himself. With his will or against his will he draws his portrait to the eye of his companions by every word. Every opinion reacts on him who utters it. It is a threadball thrown at a mark, but the other end remains on the thrower

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  Eye, Men, Judging

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.142, Penguin

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• Words are finite organs of the infinite mind. They cannot cover the dimensions of what is in truth. They break, chop, and impoverish it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Mind, Dimensions, Infinite

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1849). “Nature”, p.42

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• Every person has his or her own vocation-talent is the call.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Talent, Vocation, Persons

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• Let us make education brave and preventive. Politics is an afterwork, a poor patching. We are always a little late... We shall one day learn to supercede politics by education... We must begin higher up, namely in Education.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Education, Science, Brave

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• Poetry being ... when we look from the center outward.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Writing, Looks, Poetry Is

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• Invention breeds invention. No sooner is the electric telegraph devised than gutta-percha, the very material it requires, is found. The aeronaut is provided with gun-cotton, the very fuel he wants for his balloon.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Science, Gun, Fuel

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

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• [W]e pity our fathers for dying before steam and galvanism, sulphuric ether and ocean telegraphs, photograph and spectrograph arrived, as cheated out of their human estate.

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  Father, Ocean, Science

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1871). “Society and Solitude and Other Essays”, p.142

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• The machine unmakes the man. Now that the machine is so perfect, the engineer is nobody.

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  Men, Perfect, Machines

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.83, Harvard University Press

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• The horseman serves the horse, The neat-herd serves the neat, The merchant serves the purse, The eater serves his meat; 'Tis the day of the chattel, Web to weave, and corn to grind, Things are in the saddle, And ride mankind.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Horse, Meat, Corn

  "Ode Inscribed toW. H. Channing" l. 50 (1847)

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• We are impressed and even daunted by the immense Universe to be explored. "What we know is a point to what we do not know."

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Knowledge, Science, Knows

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1080, Delphi Classics

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• [on Thoreau:] For not a particle of respect had he to the opinions of any man or body of men, but homage solely to truth itself.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Truth, Men, Body

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2004). “Thoreau”, p.24, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wall, Adventure, Consistency

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Self-Reliance, the Over-Soul, and Other Essays”, p.25, Coyote Canyon Press

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