Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes About Revelations

• The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Freedom, Men, Thinking

  1860 The Conduct of Life,'Fate'.

• The highest revelation is that God is in every man.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Revelations, Every Man

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2004). “A Dream Too Wild: Emerson Meditations for Every Day of the Year”, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

• We dress our garden, eat our dinners, discuss the household with our wives, and these things make no impression, are forgotten next week; but in the solitude to which every man is always returning, he has a sanity and revelations, which in his passage into new worlds he will carry with him. Never mind the ridicule, never mind the defeat: up again, old heart! — it seems to say, — there is victory yet for all justice; and the true romance which the world exists to realize, will be the transformation of genius into practical power.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Heart, Men, Garden

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.205

• Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition, and a religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Philosophy, Thinking, Tradition

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Ernest Spiller, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Joseph Slater, Jean Ferguson Carr (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature, addresses, and lectures”, p.7, Harvard University Press

• The soul is the perceiver and revealer of truth. We know truth when we see it, let skeptic and scoffer say what they choose ... We distinguish the announcements of the soul, its manifestations of its own nature, by the term Revelation. These are always attended by the emotion of the sublime. For this communication is an influx of the Divine mind into our mind. It is an ebb of the individual rivulet before the flowing surges of the sea of life. Every distinct apprehension of this central commandment agitates men with awe and delight.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Communication, Men, Sea

• Friendship is an order of nobility; from its revelations we come more worthily into nature.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friendship, Nature, Order

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1962). “The Portable Emerson”

• My own mind is the direct revelation which I have from God and far least liable to mistake in telling his will of any revelation.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Mistake, Mind, Revelations

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2014). “The Heart of Emerson's Journals”, p.53, Courier Corporation

• Men have come to speak of the revelation as somewhat long ago given and done, as if God were dead. The injury to faith throttles the preacher; and the goodliest of institutions becomes an uncertain and inarticulate voice.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  God, Faith, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.10, Graphic Arts Books

• The soul answers never by words, but by the thing itself that is inquired after.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Soul, Answers

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.393, Library of America

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