Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Page 22

• The cheapness of man is every day's tragedy.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Tragedy, Frugality

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Ernest Spiller, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Wallace E. Williams, Joseph Slater (1987). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men: seven lectures”, p.18, Harvard University Press

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• There are always two parties;
  the establishment and the movement.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Party, Two, Movement

  "Historic Notes of Life and Letters in New England" (1867)

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• Wealth is in applications of mind to nature; and the art of getting rich consists not in industry, much less in saving, but in a better order, in timeliness, in being at the right spot.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Nature, Order

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.361, Рипол Классик

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• Whom God has put asunder, why should man put together?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Marriage, Men, Together

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• From within or from behind, a light shines through us upon things, and makes us aware that we are nothing, but the light is all.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sunset, Light, Shining

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Self-Reliance, the Over-Soul, and Other Essays”, p.57, Coyote Canyon Press

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• Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Time, Cynical, Haste

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• Every individual strives to grow and exclude, to the extremities of the universe, and to impose the law of its being on every other creature.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Greatness, Law, Individual

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1850). “Representative Men: Seven Lectures”, p.21

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• Words are alive. Cut them and they bleed.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Cutting, Alive

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• The imagination and the senses cannot be gratified at the same time.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Time, Imagination, Fantasy

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• Wherever we go, whatever we do, self is the sole subject we study and learn.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Learning, Self, Study

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1910). “Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson: with annotations”

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• I have only one doctrine, the infinitude of the private man.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Doctrine

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• The universal soul is the alone creator of the useful and the beautiful; therefore to make anything useful or beautiful, the individual must be submitted to the universal mind.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beautiful, Soul, Mind

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2410, Delphi Classics

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• All that can be done for you is nothing to what you can do for yourself.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Thinking, Done, Can Do

  "Emerson: The Mind on Fire". Book by Robert D. Richardson (p. 69), March 6, 1995.

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• Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Motivational, Business, Character

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.148, Harvard University Press

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• Obedience alone gives the right to command.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Military, Giving, Obedience

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1843-1871”, p.298, University of Georgia Press

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• The highest proof of civility is that the whole public action of the State is directed on securing the greatest good of the greatest number.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Numbers, Action, Civility

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco, Joel Myerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.440, Harvard University Press

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• The sky is the ultimate art gallery just above us.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Sky, Space

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• God has delegated himself to a million deputies.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Angel, Deputies, Millions

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.118, Harvard University Press

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• Do not you see that every misfortune is misconduct; that every honour is desert; that every effort is an insolence of your own?...You carry your fortune in your own hand.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Self, Hands, Effort

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• Poetry must be as new as foam and as old as the rock.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Philosophy, Rocks

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ralph H. Orth, Glen M. Johnson (1994). “The Topical Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.184, University of Missouri Press

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• The poet alone knows astronomy, chemistry, vegetation, and animation, for he does not stop at these facts, but employs them as signs. He knows why the plain, or meadow of space, was strown with these flowers we call suns, and moons, and stars; why the deep is adorned with animals, with men, and gods; for, in every word he speaks he rides on them as the horses of thought.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Horse, Stars, Flower

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.192, Penguin

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• We have a great deal more kindness than is ever spoken. (Despite) all the selfishness that chills like east winds the world, the whole human family is bathed with an element of love like a fine ether... The effect of the indulgence of this human affection is a certain cordial exhilaration.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Kindness, Wind, Selfishness

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• Beauty rests on necessities.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beauty

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1875). “Culture, Behavior, Beauty”, p.95

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• We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Nature.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Thank You God, Faces, Hours

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt McLaughlin (2010). “The Laws of Nature: Excerpts from the Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.76, North Atlantic Books

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• Almost every man we meet requires some civility; requires to be humored; - he has some fame, some talent, some whim of religion or philanthropy in his head that is not to be questioned, and which spoils all conversation with him. But a friend is a sane man who exercises not my ingenuity, but me.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friendship, Exercise, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Emerson's Essays: Top Essays”, p.65, 谷月社

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