Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Page 95

• The light by which we see in this world comes out from the soul of the observer. Wherever any noble sentiment dwelt, it made the faces and houses around to shine. Nay, the powers of this busy brain are miraculous and illimitable.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Light, House, Shining

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2005). “The Selected Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.241, University of Georgia Press

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• Drive out Nature with a fork, she comes running back.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Running, Nature, Science

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2000). “Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.197, Modern Library

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• A man cannot utter two or three sentences without disclosing to intelligent ears precisely where he stands in life and thought, whether in the kingdom of the senses and the understanding, or in that of ideas and imagination, or in the realm of intuitions and duty.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Intelligent, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.434

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• Knowledge is the antidote to fear. [especially as fear often stands for false evidence appearing real!]

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Real, Anticipation, Evidence

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• The poorest experience is rich enough for all the purposes of expressing thought

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Purpose, Rich, Enough

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1979). “Emerson's Literary Criticism”, p.32, U of Nebraska Press

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• It is the duty of men to judge men only by their actions. Our faculties furnish us with no means of arriving at the motive, the character, the secret self. We call the tree good from its fruits, and the man, from his works.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Character, Mean, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2006). “Ralph Waldo Emerson: Selected Essays, Lectures and Poems”, p.58, Bantam Classics

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• He needs no library, for he has not done thinking; no church, for he is himself a prophet; no statute book, for he hath the Lawgiver; no money, for he is value itself; no road, for he is at home where he is.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Home, Thinking

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1969). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VII: 1838-1842”, p.332, Harvard University Press

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• The world is nothing, the man is all; in yourself is the law of all nature, and you know not yet how a globule of sap ascends; in yourself slumbers the whole of Reason; it is for you to know all, it is for you to dare all.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Law, Sap

  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.69, Harvard University Press

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• Nature, as we know her, is no saint.... She comes eating and drinking and sinning.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Drinking, Saint

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1993). “Self-reliance, and Other Essays”, p.91, Courier Corporation

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• After thirty, a man wakes up sad every morning, excepting perhaps five or six, until the day of his death.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Morning, Men, Age

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Porte (1982). “Emerson in His Journals”, p.142, Harvard University Press

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• The world exists, as I understand it, to teach the science of liberty.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Thinking, Liberty, World

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1843-1871”, p.341, University of Georgia Press

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• All good conversation, manners, and action come from a spontaneity which forgets usages and makes the moment great.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Action, Forget, Spontaneity

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.210, Penguin

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• Women, more than all, are the element and kingdom of illusion. Being fascinated, they fascinate.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Women, Elements, Kingdoms

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1860). “Power, Wealth, Illusions”, p.96

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• If you don't ride in the rain, you don't ride.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Rain, Riding Your Bike, Motorcycle

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• Society is an illusion to the young citizen. It lies before him in rigid repose, with certain names, men, and institutions, rootedlike oak-trees to the centre, round which all arrange themselves the best they can. But the old statesman knows that society is fluid; there are no such roots and centres; but any particle may suddenly become the centre of the movement, and compel the system to gyrate round it, as every man of strong will, like Pisistratus, or Cromwell, does for a time, and every man of truth, like Plato, or Paul, does forever.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Strong, Plato, Lying

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.161, Graphic Arts Books

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• Defect in manners is usually the defect of fine perceptions. Elegance comes of no breeding, but of birth.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Perception, Birth, Elegance

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• Men should take their knowledge from the Sun, the Moon and the Stars.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Stars, Moon, Men

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• Nature is a language and every new fact one learns is a new word; but it is not a language taken to pieces and dead in the dictionary, but the language put together into a most significant and universal sense. I wish to learn this language - not that I may know a new grammar, but that I may read the great book which is written in that tongue.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Book, Taken

  "Emerson: The Mind on Fire" by Robert D. Richardson, University of California Press, (p. 155), March 6, 1995.

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• Nature is not slow to equip us in the prison-uniform of the party to which we adhere.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Party, Hero, Uniforms

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Self-Reliance and Other Essays”, p.23, Courier Corporation

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• When duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, I can.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Military, Youth, Lows

  "Voluntaries" no. 3 (1867)

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• Old & New put their stamp to everything in Nature. The snowflake that is now falling is marked by both. The present moment gives the motion & the color of the flake: Antiquity, its form & properties. All things wear a luster which is the gift of the present & a tarnish of time.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Fall, Color

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• The soul comes from without into the human body, as into a temporary abode, and it goes out of it anew… it passes into other habitations, for the soul is immortal.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Soul, Body, Reincarnation

  "In the Beauty of the Lilies: A Love Story That Opens Doors to Spiritual Values". Book by Gerald O. Doyle (p. 56), 2002.

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• And truly it demands something godlike in him who cast off the common motives of humanity and ventured to trust himself for a taskmaster.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Courage, Humanity, Individuality

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1808). “Select Essays and Poems”, p.51

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• There is always room for a man of force and he makes room for many. Society is a troop of thinkers and the best heads among them take the best places.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Men, Rooms

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.974, Library of America

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• In nature nothing can be given. All things are sold.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Given, All Things

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2004). “A Dream Too Wild: Emerson Meditations for Every Day of the Year”, p.20, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

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