Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes About Sanity

• 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

• Sanity is very rare; every man almost and every woman has a dash of madness.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Funny, Men, Insanity

  Journals

• The sanity of society is a balance of a thousand insanity's.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Insanity, Balance, Psychological

• The perception of the comic is a tie of sympathy with other men, a pledge of sanity, and a protection from those perverse tendencies and gloomy insanities in which fine intellects sometimes lose themselves. A rogue alive to the ludicrous is still convertible. If that sense is lost, his fellow-men can do little for him.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Ties, Insanity

  1876 Letters and Social Aims,'The Comic'.

• Whence, then, this worship of the past? The centuries are conspirators against the sanity and authority of the soul.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Past, Soul, Self Reliance

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.173, Harvard University Press

• Art, in the artist, is proportion, or, a habitual respect to the whole by an eye loving beauty in details. And the wonder and charm of it is the sanity in insanity which it denotes.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Respect, Art, Eye

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.539, Рипол Классик

• Sanity consists in not being subdued by your means. Fancy prices are paid for position, and for the culture of talent, but to thegrand interests, superficial success is of no account.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Success, Mean, Fancy

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.427

• Many a reformer perishes in his removal of rubbish,--and that makes the offensiveness of the class. They are partial; they are notequal to the work they pretend. They lose their way; in the assault on the kingdom of darkness, they expend all their energy on some accidental evil, and lose their sanity and power of benefit.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Class, Evil, Darkness

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.554, Рипол Классик

• Our health is our sound relation to external objects; our sympathy with external being.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sound, Sanity, Relation

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Porte (1982). “Emerson in His Journals”, p.199, Harvard University Press

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