Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes About Identity

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  The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

• We boil at different degrees.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Anger, Being Different

  'Society and Solitude' (1870) 'Eloquence'

• In the matter of religion, people eagerly fasten their eyes on the difference between their own creed and yours; whilst the charm of the study is in finding the agreements and identities in all the religions of humanity.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Religious, Eye, Agreement

  "Thinking Outside The Church : 110 Ways to Connect with Your Spiritual Nature". Book by Jennifer Leigh Selig (p. 53), 2004.

• The soul raised over passion beholds identity and eternal causation, perceives the self-existance of Truth and Right, and calms itself with knowing that all things go well.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Passion, Self, Knowing

  "Self-Reliance". Essay by Ralph Waldo Emerson, en.wikisource.org. 1847.

• Science is nothing but the finding of analogy, identity, in the most remote parts.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Identity, Analogies, Findings

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.45, Modern Library

• One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it is the bodily symbol of identity.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Eye, Identity

• The possibility of interpretation lies in the identity of the observer with the observed. Each material thing has its celestial side; has its translation, through humanity, into the spiritual and necessary sphere, where it plays a part as indestructible as any other.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Spiritual, Lying, Play

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1850). “Representative Men: Seven Lectures”, p.7

• An eye can threaten like a loaded and levelled gun, or it can insult like hissing or kicking; or, in its altered mood, by beams of kindness, it can make the heart dance for joy. ... One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it is the bodily symbol of identity.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Kindness, Eye, Heart

• The progress of religion is steadily to its identity with morals. Strength enters just as much as the moral element prevails.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Religious, Progress, Identity

• Is the acorn better than the oak which is its fullness and completion?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Identity, Acorns, Fullness

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1993). “Self-reliance, and Other Essays”, p.28, Courier Corporation

• Governments have their origin in the moral identity of men.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Government, Identity

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.566, Library of America

• Natural religion supplies still all the facts which are disguised under the dogma of popular creeds. The progress of religion is steadily to its identity with morals.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Religion, Progress, Identity

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2771, Delphi Classics

• Motion or change, and identity or rest, are the first and second secrets of nature: Motion and Rest. The whole code of her laws may be written on the thumbnail, or the signet of a ring.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Change, Law, Secret

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.40, Courier Corporation

• Though your views are in straight antagonism to theirs, assume an identity of sentiment, assume that you are saying precisely thatwhich all think, and in the flow of wit and love roll out your paradoxes in solid column, with not the infirmity of a doubt.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Thinking, Views, Doubt

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2016). “Essays”, p.170, Open Road Media

• The glance is natural magic. The mysterious communication established across a house between two entire strangers, moves all the springs of wonder. The communication by the glance is in the greatest part not subject to the control of the will. It is the bodily symbol of identity with nature. We look into the eyes to know if this other form is another self, and the eyes will not lie, but make a faithful confession what inhabitant is there.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Lying, Spring, Moving

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume II”, p.410

• Harmony of aim, not identity of conclusion, is the secret of sympathetic life.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Secret, Identity

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