Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes About Evidence

• Whenever a true theory appears, it will be its own evidence. Its test is, that it will explain all phenomena.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Truth, Philosophy, Tests

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.30, Harvard University Press

• The blazing evidence of immortality is our dissatisfaction with any other solution.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Immortality, Blazing, Evidence

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1978). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson: 1854-1861”, p.17, Harvard University Press

• All necessary truth is its own evidence.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Truth, Truth Is, Evidence

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2014). “The Heart of Emerson's Journals”, p.74, Courier Corporation

• A friend, therefore, is a sort of paradox in nature. I who alone am, I who see nothing in nature whose existence I can affirm with equal evidence to my own, behold now the semblance of my being, in all its height, variety, and curiosity, reiterated in a foreign form; so that a friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Real, Curiosity, May

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1342, Delphi Classics

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

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Real, Anticipation, Evidence

• Art is evidence of our most creative moment.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Creative, Moments

• I do not know what arguments mean in reference to any expression of a thought. I delight in telling what I think; but if you ask me how I dare say so, or why it is so, I am the most helpless of men.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Mean, Men, Thinking

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Myerson (2013). “The Selected Letters of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.190, Columbia University Press

• The moment the doctrine of the immortality is separately taught, man is already fallen. In the flowing of love, in the adoration of humility, there is no question of continuance. No inspired man ever asks this question, or condescends to these evidences. For the soul is true to itself, and the man in whom it is shed abroad cannot wander from the present, which is infinite, to a future which would be finite.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Humility, Men, Soul

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2000). “Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.303, Modern Library

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