Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes About Alienation

• It is the same among the men and women, as among the silent trees; always a referred existence, an absence, never a presence and satisfaction. Is it, that beauty can never be grasped? In persons and in landscape is equally inaccessible?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Reality, Men, Tree

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.45, Courier Corporation

• Everything intercepts us from ourselves.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Alienation, Intervention

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1964). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.85, Harvard University Press

• We are imprisoned in life in the company of persons powerfully unlike us.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Alienation, Company

• In strict science, all persons underlie the same condition of an infinite remoteness. Shall we fear to cool our love by mining forthe metaphysical foundation of this elysian temple? Shall I not be as real as the things I see? If I am, I shall not fear to know them for what they are.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Real, Knowledge, Temples

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1339, Delphi Classics

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