Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Page 156

• Artists must be sacrificed to their art.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Artist, Quality

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1875). “Letters and Social Aims”, p.223

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• The constructive intellect [genius] produces thoughts, sentences, poems, plans, designs, systems. It is the generation of the mind, the marriage of thought with nature.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Marriage, Design, Mind

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.151

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• Daughter of heaven and earth, coy Spring,
  With sudden passion languishing,
  Teaching barren moors to smile,
  Painting pictures mile on mile,
  Holds a cup of cowslip wreaths
  Whence a smokeless incense breathes.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Daughter, Spring, Teaching

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1854). “Poems”, p.163

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• Perhaps love is only the highest symbol of friendship, as all other things seem symbols of love.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Romantic Love, Love Is, Perhaps Love

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “Society and Solitude: Twelve Chapters”, p.106, London S. Low, Son & Marston 1870.

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• The effect of the indulgence of human affection is a certain cordial exhilaration.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Exhilaration, Affection

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• Action is the process whereby what is not fully formed passes into expressive consciousness.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Motivation, Action

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• The last change in our point of view gives the whole world a pictorial air.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Air, Views, Giving

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.161

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• Power ceases in the instant of repose; it resides in the moment of transition from a past to a new state, in the shooting of the gulf, in the darting to an aim.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Power, Past, Transition

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

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• Only to youth will spring be spring.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Children, Spring

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.237, Delphi Classics

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• God may forgive sins, he said, but awkwardness has no forgiveness in heaven or earth.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Heaven, Awkward, Forgiving

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2397, Delphi Classics

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• Literature is the effort of man to indemnify himself for the wrongs of his condition.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Music, Men, Effort

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.3208, Delphi Classics

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• Throughout the ages there have always been those who have been willing to go beyond the norms and reach for that unknown and distant star.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Stars, Teaching, Learning

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• Hast thou named all the birds without a gun?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Gun, Bird

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1854). “Poems”, p.522

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• In talking with scholars, I observe that they lost on ruder companions those years of boyhood which alone could give imaginative literature a religious and infinite quality in their esteem.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Religious, Talking, Years

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.378

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• Society, to be sure, does not like this very well; it saith, Whoso goes to walk alone, accuses the whole world; he declares all to be unfit to be his companions; it is very uncivil, nay, insulting; Society will retaliate.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Insulting, Doe, World

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.94, Penguin

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• I am grown by sympathy a little eager and sentimental, but leave me alone, and I should relish every hour and what it brought me, the pot-luck of the day, as heartily as the oldest gossip in the bar-room.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Gossip, Leave Me Alone, Luck

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.207, Penguin

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• To the men of this world, to the animal strength and spirits, to the men of practical power, whilst immersed in it, the man of ideas appears out of his reason. They alone gave reason.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Animal, Men, Ideas

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1601, Delphi Classics

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• Go where he will, the wise man is at home, His hearth the earth, his hall the azure dome.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wise, Home, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.86, Delphi Classics

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• Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Self Reliance, Aversion, Conformity

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco, Joel Myerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.22, Harvard University Press

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• It is easy to see that a greater self-reliance must work a revolution in all the offices and relations of men; in their religion; in their education; in their pursuits; their modes of living; their association; in their property; in their speculative views.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Self, Views

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1287, Delphi Classics

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• And so the reliance on Property, including the reliance on governments which protect it, is the want of self-reliance.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Government, Self, Want

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Self-Reliance and Other Essays”, p.37, Courier Corporation

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• A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the luster of the firmament of bards and sages

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Light, Self Reliance

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Emerson's Essays: Top Essays”, p.41, 谷月社

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• He cumbers himself never about consequences, about interests; he gives an independent, genuine verdict. You must court him: he does not court you. But the man is, as it were, clapped into jail by his consciousness.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Independent, Men, Jail

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.11, Penguin

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• Virtues are, in the popular estimate, rather the exception than the rule. There is the man and his virtues.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Self Reliance, Virtue

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.166, Harvard University Press

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• The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you is, that it scatters your force.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Self Reliance, Usage, Force

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.263, Library of America

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