Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Page 105

• We live in a system of approximations. Every end is prospective of some other end, which is also temporary; a round and final success nowhere. We are encamped in nature, not domesticated.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Success, Knowledge, Finals

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.44, Courier Corporation

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• By degrees we may come to know the primitive sense of the permanent objects of nature, so that the world shall be to us an open book, and every form significant of its hidden life and final cause.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Book, Knowledge

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.14, Courier Corporation

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• "Though many painters and sculptors talk glibly of "going in for photography," you will find that very few of them can ever make a picture by photography; they lack the science, technical knowledge, and above all the practice. Most people think they can play tennis, shoot, write novels, and photograph as well as any other person - until they try."

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Photography, Writing, Thinking

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• "Do not call yourself an "artist-photographer" and make "artist-painters" and "artist-sculptors" laugh; call yourself a photographer and wait for artists to call you brother."

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Photography, Brother, Artist

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• Nature is saturated with Deity.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Deities, Saturated

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1973). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks: 1847-1848”, p.35, Harvard University Press

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• Nature is a rag-merchant, who works up every shred and ort and end into new creations; like a good chemist, whom I found, the other day, in his laboratory, converting his old shirts into pure white sugar.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, White, Rags

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt McLaughlin (2010). “The Laws of Nature: Excerpts from the Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.73, North Atlantic Books

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• Power is in nature the essential measure of right.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Essentials

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.144, Modern Library

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• Where there is no vision a people perish.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  People, Innovation, Insightful

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• The fatal trait of the times is the divorce between religion and morality.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Divorce, Religion, Morality

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• The shot heard round the world.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Revolutionary War, Augusta National, April And Spring

  "Concord Hymn" l. 1 (1837)

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• 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

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• Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Reality, Self

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Self-Reliance and Other Essays”, p.21, Courier Corporation

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• The death of a dear friend, wife, brother, lover, which seemed nothing but privation, somewhat later assumes the aspect of a guide or genius; for it commonly operates revolutions in our way of life, terminates an epoch of infancy or of youth which was waiting to be closed, breaks up a wonted occupation, or a household, or style of living, and allows the formation of new ones more friendly to the growth of character.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Brother, Character

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Essays”, p.22, Xist Publishing

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• Up and away for life! be fleet!-
  The frost-king ties my fumbling feet,
  Sings in my ears, my hands are stones,
  Curdles the blood to the marble bones,
  Tugs at the heart-strings, numbs the sense,
  And hems in life with narrowing fence.
  Well, in this broad bed lie and sleep,-
  The punctual stars will vigil keep,-
  Embalmed by purifying cold;
  The winds shall sing their dead-march old,
  The snow is no ignoble shroud,
  The moon thy mourner, and the cloud.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Stars, Kings, Lying

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.234, Delphi Classics

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• It is very hard to be simple enough to be good.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wise, Simple, Simplicity

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2014). “The Heart of Emerson's Journals”, p.117, Courier Corporation

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• The basis of good manners is self-reliance.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Self, Good Man, Manners

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.413

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• Some natures are too good to be spoiled by praise.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Praise, Spoiled

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.56, Courier Corporation

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• The intellectual man requires a fine bait; the sots are easily amused. But everybody is drugged with his own frenzy, and the pageant marches at all hours, with music and banner and badge.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Intellectual, Bait

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.275, Penguin

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• The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight with a verse given in a happy quotation than in the poem.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beauty, May, Delight

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• Infancy conforms to nobody;
  all conform to it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Philosophy, History

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.260, Library of America

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• The heroic cannot be the common,
  nor the common the heroic.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Hero, Common, Reconcile

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.379, Library of America

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• The French woman says,
  'I am a woman and a Parisienne,
  and nothing foreign to me
  appears altogether human.'

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  French Woman, Humans

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• Poetry teaches the enormous force of a few words, and, in proportion to the inspiration, checks loquacity.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspiration, Few Words, Enormous

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson - Poetry and Imagination”, p.41, Editora Dracaena

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• The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Mediocrity, Hopeless, Doom

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2014). “The Portable Emerson”, p.72, Penguin

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• Every friend whom not thy fantastic will but the great and tender heart in thee craveth, shall lock thee in his embrace. And this because the heart in thee is the heart of all; not a valve, not a wall, not an intersection is there anywhere in nature, but one blood rolls uninterruptedly in endless circulation through all men, as the water of the globe is all one sea, and, truly seen, its tide is one.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wall, Heart, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.399, Library of America

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