Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Page 98

• Why should we grope among the dry bones of the past? The sun shines today also.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Past, Thinking, Dry Bones

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2016). “Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson - Nature”, p.2, Editora Dracaena

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• So much of our time is spent in preparation, so much in routine, and so much in retrospect, that the amount of each person's genius is confined to a very few hours.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Time, Preparation, Routine

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• The question is whether [suicide] is the way out, or the way in.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Suicide, Way

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• How can he [today's writer] be honored, when he does not honor himself; when he loses himself in the crowd; when he is no longer the lawgiver, but the sycophant, ducking to the giddy opinion of a reckless public.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Honor, Crowds, Today

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1856). “Representative Men: Seven Lectures ...”, p.265

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• All science is transcendental or else passes away.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Passing Away, Transcendental

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.211, Harvard University Press

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• The statue is then beautiful when it begins to be incomprehensible, when it is passing out of criticism, and can no longer be defined by compass and measuring-wand, but demands an active imagination to go with it, and to say what it is in the act of doing.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beautiful, Imagination, Criticism

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.102, Courier Corporation

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• He that writes to himself writes to an eternal public.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Writing, Eternity, Eternal

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1320, Delphi Classics

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• Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Truth, Men, Individuality

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2614, Delphi Classics

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• God hid the whole world in thy heart.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Heart, World, Whole

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.93, Delphi Classics

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• Thought is the seed of action; but action is as much its second form as thought is its first.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Thinking, Thoughtful, Firsts

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.18, Harvard University Press

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• Whenever a mind is simple and receives an old wisdom, old things pass away,--means, teachers, texts, temples fall; it lives now, and absorbs past and future into present hour. All things are made sacred by relation to it,--one as much as another.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Teacher, Fall, Future

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.17, Penguin

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• If the king is in the palace, nobody looks at the walls. It is when he is gone, and the house is filled with grooms and gazers, that we turn from the people, to find relief in the majestic men that are suggested by the pictures and the architecture.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Leadership, Kings, Wall

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.244

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• We fancy men are individuals; so are pumpkins; but every pumpkin in the field goes through every point of pumpkin history.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Justice, Diversity

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.545, Рипол Классик

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• Vivacity, leadership, must be had, and we are not allowed to be nice in choosing. We must fetch the pump with dirty water, if clean cannot be had.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Leadership, Nice, Dirty

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.32, Harvard University Press

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• If thou fill thy brain with Boston and New York, with fashion and covetousness, and wilt stimulate thy jaded senses with wine and French coffee, thou shalt find no radiance of wisdom in the lonely waste of the pinewoods.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Fashion, Lonely, New York

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1425, Delphi Classics

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• Every man believes he has a greater possibility.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Life, Believe

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• Universities are of course hostile to geniuses, which, seeing and using ways of their own, discredit the routine: as churches and monasteries persecute youthful saints.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  College, Church, Saint

  English Traits "Universities" (1856)

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• Wisdom is not found with those who dwell at their ease; rather nature, when she adds brain, adds difficulty.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Brain, Add, Ease

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• Wherever the truth is injured, defend it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Truth, Truth Is, Injured

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edward Waldo Emerson, Waldo Emerson Forbes (1910). “Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1820-1872 [1876] ed”

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• I am not much an advocate for traveling, and I observe that men run away to other countries because they are not good in their own, and run back to their own because they pass for nothing in the new places. For the most part, only the light characters travel. Who are you that have no task to keep you at home?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Running, Country, Travel

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.369

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• The service a man renders his friend is trivial and selfish, compared with the service he knows his friend stood in readiness to yield him, alike before he had begun to serve his friend, and now also. Compared with that good-will I bear my friend, the benefit it is in my power to render him seems small.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friendship, Selfish, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2000). “Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.448, Modern Library

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• Wherever there is failure, there is some giddiness, some superstition about luck, some step omitted, which, Nature never pardons.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Failure, Luck, Superstitions

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2014). “The Portable Emerson”, p.340, Penguin

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• England produces under favorable conditions of ease and culture the finest women in the world. And, as the men are affectionate and true-hearted, the women inspire and refine them.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Women, Inspire, Culture

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2153, Delphi Classics

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• The age of puberty is a crisis in the age of man worth studying. It is the passage from the unconscious to the conscious; from thesleep of passions to their rage.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Passion, Men, Age

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• If a man owns land,
  the land owns him.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Home, Men, Land

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.376

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