Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Page 39

• All high beauty has a moral element in it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beauty, Elements, Moral

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1875). “Culture, Behavior, Beauty”, p.107

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• The reliance on authority measures the decline of religion, the withdrawal of the soul.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Soul, Religion, Withdrawal

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1993). “Self-reliance, and Other Essays”, p.63, Courier Corporation

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• Genius is its own end.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Genius, Ends

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition”, p.133, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• But the wise know that foolish legislation is a rope of sand, which perishes in the twisting; that the State must follow, and notlead the character and progress of the citizen; the strongest usurper is quickly got rid of; and they only who build on Ideas, build for eternity; and that the form of government which prevails, is the expression of what cultivation exists in the population which permits it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wise, Character, Government

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.250, Harvard University Press

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• The boxer's ring is the enjoyment of the part of society whose animal nature alone has been developed.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Animal, Boxing, Boxers

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• The flowers talk when the wind blows over them.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Flower, Blow, Wind

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Porte (1982). “Emerson in His Journals”, p.240, Harvard University Press

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• Mankind have such a deep stake in inward illumination, that there is much to be said by the hermit or monk in defence of his life of thought and prayer.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Prayer, Illumination, Inward

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.749, Library of America

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• So all that is said of the wise man by Stoic or Oriental or modern essayist, describes to each reader his own idea, describes his unattained but attainable self.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wise, Men, Self

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Self-Reliance and Other Essays”, p.3, Courier Corporation

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• If you maintain a dead church, contribute to a dead Bible-society, vote with a great party either for the government or against it, spread your table like base housekeepers, - under all these screens I have diffuculty to detect the precise man you are: and of course so much force is withdrawn from your proper life. But do your work and I shall know you. Do your work, and you shall reinforce yourself. A man must consider what a blind-man's bluff is this game of conformity. If I know your sect I anticipate your argument.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Party, Men, Games

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2017). “Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.144, Broadview Press

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• He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Wise, Philosophy

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Richard Lee Grossman (2005). “A Year with Emerson: A Daybook”, p.140, David R. Godine Publisher

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• Character is always known. Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wall, Character, Native American

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1118, Delphi Classics

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• I like people who can do things

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  People, Can Do

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.3095, Delphi Classics

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• Our spontaneous action is always the best. You cannot, with your best deliberation and heed, come so close to any question as your spontaneous glance shall bring you.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Action, Spontaneity, Spontaneous

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.148

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• The secret of the world is the tie between person and event. Person makes event and event person.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Ties, Secret, Events

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.90, Penguin

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• Is it not better to intimate our astonishment as we pass through this world if it be only for a moment ere we are swallowed up in the yeast of the abyss? I will lift up my hands and say Kosmos.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Thinking, Hands, World

  "Emerson: The Mind on Fire". Book by Robert D. Richardson, p. 122, March 6, 1995.

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• We cannot describe the natural history of the soul, but we know that it is divine. All things are known to the soul. It is not to be surprised by any communication. Nothing can be greater than it, let those fear and those fawn who will. The soul is in her native realm; and it is wider than space, older than time, wide as hope, rich as love. Pusillanimity and fear she refuses with a beautiful scorn; they are not for her who putteth on her coronation robes, and goes out through universal love to universal power.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beautiful, Communication, Space

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• The poem is a confession of faith.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Confession

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• Ethics and religion differ herein; that the one is the system of human duties commencing from man; the other, from God. Religion includes the personality of God; Ethics does not.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Personality, Religion

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.24, Courier Corporation

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• Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Karma, Wise, Fate

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.48, Harvard University Press

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• The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Tongue, Prison, Fame

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.299, Library of America

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• My angel,-his name is Freedom,-
  Choose him to be your king;
  He shall cut pathways east and west,
  And fend you with his wing.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Kings, Freedom, Angel

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.206, Delphi Classics

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• Take the place and attitude to which you see your unquestionable right, and all men acquiesce.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Attitude, Acceptance, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1972). “Early Lectures: 1838-1842”, p.101, Harvard University Press

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• Skepticism is slow suicide.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Suicide, Suicidal, Skepticism

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1843-1871”, p.340, University of Georgia Press

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• Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Society, Gains

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1808). “Select Essays and Poems”, p.59

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• Society is a masked ball, where every one hides his real character, and reveals it by hiding.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Real, Character, Society

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.119, Harvard University Press

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