Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes About Saints

• Colleges hate geniuses, just as convents hate saints.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Hate, Book, Beer

• There is one mind common to all individual men. Every man is an inlet to the same and to all of the same. He that is once admitted to the right of reason is made a freeman of the whole estate. What Plato has thought, he may think; what a saint has felt, he may feel; what at any time has befallen any man, he can understand. Who hath access to this universal mind is a party to all that is or can be done, for this is the only and sovereign agent

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Plato, Party, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.102, Penguin

• To the poet, to the philosopher, to the saint, all things are friendly and sacred, all events profitable, all days holy, all men divine.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Philosophy, Men, Friendly

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Self-Reliance and Other Essays”, p.5, Courier Corporation

• A self-denial, no less austere than the saint's, is demanded of the scholar. He must worship truth, and forgo all things for that,and choose defeat and pain, so that his treasure in thought is thereby augmented.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Pain, Self, Saint

• Philanthropic and religious bodies do not commonly make their executive officers out of saints.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Religious, Saint, Body

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.349, Рипол Классик

• Universities are of course hostile to geniuses, which, seeing and using ways of their own, discredit the routine: as churches and monasteries persecute youthful saints.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  College, Church, Saint

  English Traits "Universities" (1856)

• Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use short and positive speech.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Hero, Saint

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1954). “The Power of Emerson's Wisdom”

• People are timid and apologetic; they are no longer upright; they dare not say "I think," "I am," but quote some saint or sage. They are ashamed before the blade of grass or the blowing rose. These roses under my window make no reference to former roses or to better ones; they are for what they are; they exist with God to-day.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Confidence, Thinking, People

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (185?). “Nature: An Essay; and Orations”

• It is very odd that Nature should be so unscrupulous. She is no saint . . .

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Saint, Odd

• The virtues of society are the vices of the saints.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Vices, Saint, Virtue

• Conversation in society is found to be on a platform so low as to exclude science, the saint, and the poet.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Saint, Poet, Lows

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.116, Harvard University Press

• Skepticism? Yes, but a saint is a skeptic once in twenty-four hours.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Twenties, Saint, Four

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1954). “Basic Selections from Emerson: Essays, Poems & Apothegms”

• People forget that it is the eye which makes the horizon, and the rounding mind's eye which makes this or that man a type or representative of humanity with the name of hero or saint.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Hero, Eye, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Jean Ferguson Carr (1987). “The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.262, Harvard University Press

• My gentleman gives the law where he is; he will outpray saints in chapel, outgeneral veterans in the field, and outshine all courtesy in the hall. He is good company for pirates, and good with academicians; so that it is useless to fortify yourself against him; he has the private entrance to all minds, and I could as easily exclude myself, as him.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Law, Giving, Pirate

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Essays”, p.43, Xist Publishing

• The saint and poet seek privacy to ends the most public and universal: and it is the secret of culture, to interest the man more in his public, than in his private quality.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Solitude, Secret

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.398

• If we tire of the saints, Shakspeare is our city of refuge.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Cities, Saint, Tire

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.352

• The virtues of society are vices of the saint. The terror of reform is the discovery that we must cast away our virtues, or what we have always esteemed such, into the same pit that has consumed our grosser vices.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Discovery, Vices, Reform

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.411, Library of America

• Man is timid and apologetic; he is no longer upright; he dares not say "I think," "I am," but quotes some saint or sage.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Pride, Men, Thinking

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Emerson's Essays: Top Essays”, p.50, 谷月社

• Nature, as we know her, is no saint.... She comes eating and drinking and sinning.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Drinking, Saint

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1993). “Self-reliance, and Other Essays”, p.91, Courier Corporation

• This one fact the world hates; that the soul becomes; for that forever degrades the past, turns all riches to poverty, all reputation to a shame, confounds the saint with the rogue, shoves Jesus and Judas equally aside.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Jesus, Hate, Past

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.253, Рипол Классик

• The moral equalizes all; enriches, empowers all. It is the coin which buys all, and which all find in their pocket. Under the whipof the driver, the slave shall feel his equality with saints and heroes.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Hero, Empowering, Pockets

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2005). “The Selected Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.250, University of Georgia Press

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