Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes About Economy

• I hate this shallow Americanism which hopes to get rich by credit, to get knowledge by raps on midnight tables, to learn the economy of the mind by phrenology, or skill without study, or mastery without apprenticeship.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Hope, Hate, Rap

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2514, Delphi Classics

• A creative economy is the fuel of magnificence.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Money, Creativity, Creative

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1857). “English Traits”, p.178

• Economy does not consist in saving the coal, but in using the time while it burns.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Doe, Coal, Saving

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alfred R. Ferguson (1965). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume V: 1835-1838”, p.319, Harvard University Press

• Let us learn the meaning of economy. Economy is a high human office,--a sacrament when its aim is grand, when it is the prudence of simple tastes, when it is practised for freedom or for love or devotion.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Simple, Office, Taste

• The line of beauty is the line of perfect economy.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beauty, Perfect, Lines

• For splendor, there must somewhere be rigid economy. That the head of the house may go brave, the members must be plainly clad, and the town must save that the State may spend.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Government, House, Brave

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (191?). “Essays”

• Don't make a novel to establish a principle of political economy. You will spoil both.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Political, Principles, Fiction

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edward Waldo Emerson, Waldo Emerson Forbes (1913). “Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1820-1872 [1876] Ed”

• Wise men read very sharply all your private history in your look and gait and behavior. The whole economy of nature is bent on expression. The tell-tale body is all tongues. Men are like Geneva watches with crystal faces which expose the whole movement.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wise, Men, Expression

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.409

• As much wisdom may be expended on a private economy as on an empire, and as much wisdom may be drawn from it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  May, Empires, Economy

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Essays (Annotated Edition)”, p.122, Jazzybee Verlag

• Wealth brings with it its own checks and balances. The basis of political economy is noninterference. The only safe rule is found in the self-adjusting meter of demand and supply. Open the doors of opportunity to talent and virtue and they will do themselves justice, and property will not be in bad hands. In a free and just commonwealth, property rushes from the idle and imbecile to the industrious, brave and persevering.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Opportunity, Doors, Self

• The best political economy is the care and culture of men; for, in these crises, all are ruined except such as are proper individuals, capable of thought, and of new choice and the application of their talent to new labor.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Choices, Political

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.857, Library of America

• The counting-room maxims liberally expounded are laws of the Universe. The merchant's economy is a coarse symbol of the soul's economy. It is, to spend for power, and not for pleasure.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Money, Law, Soul

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.381

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