Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Page 44

• Astronomy to the selfish becomes astrology.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Selfish, Anatomy And Physiology, Astrology

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Emerson's Essays: Top Essays”, p.102, 谷月社

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• A weed is a plant whose virtue is not yet known.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Weed, Virtue, Plant

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• A garden is like those pernicious machineries which catch a man's coat-skirt or his hand, and draw in his arm, his leg , and his whole body to irresistible destruction.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Garden, Hands

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.357

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• The reward of commercial civilization is the ability to consume a never-ending array of products.There are limits beyond which commodities cannot be multiplied without preventing their consumers from affirming themselves through the exercise of their personal freedom.When market dependence reaches a certain threshold it deprives people of their power to live creatively and to act autonomously. And precisely because this new impotence is so deeply experienced, it is expressed with difficulty.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Exercise, Civilization, People

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• Women, as most susceptible, are the best index of the coming hour.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Intuition, Hours, Susceptible

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.92, Penguin

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• There is health in table talk and nursery play. We must wear old shoes and have aunts and cousins.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Family, Cousin, Aunt

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2014). “The Heart of Emerson's Journals”, p.126, Courier Corporation

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• She shows us only surfaces, but she is million-fathoms deep.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Surface, Shows, Fathom

  "The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson: 1843 - 1871".

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• Colleges hate geniuses, just as convents hate saints.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Hate, Book, Beer

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• Cut these words and they would bleed; they are vascular and alive.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Cutting, Alive

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2014). “The Heart of Emerson's Journals”, p.154, Courier Corporation

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• We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Faith, Believe, Men

  1860 The Conduct of Life,'Worship'.

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• Power and speed be hands and feet.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Hands, Gnarly, Feet

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Essays and English Traits by Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Five Foot Shelf of Classics, Vol. V (in 51 Volumes)”, p.63, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Boys, Giving, Accomplishment

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.406, Рипол Классик

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• People wish to be settled; only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Change, Hope, Self Esteem

  'Essays' (1841) 'Circles'

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• My book should smell of pines and resound with the hum of insects.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Smell, Should

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2011). “Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.304, Penguin

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• To a dull mind all of nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world burns and sparkles with light.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Motivational, Beauty, Nature

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Richard Lee Grossman (2005). “A Year with Emerson: A Daybook”, p.107, David R. Godine Publisher

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• To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as from society. I am not solitary whilst I read and write, though nobody is with me. But if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Stars, Writing, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.9, Library of America

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• I wish to say what I think and feel today, with the proviso that tomorrow perhaps I shall contradict it all.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Thinking, Wish, Today

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1969). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VII: 1838-1842”, p.239, Harvard University Press

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• Be an opener of doors for such as come after thee.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Teacher, Teaching, Doors

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.117, Harvard University Press

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• The surest poison is time.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Time, Poison, Time Management

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1911). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.319, Рипол Классик

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• Ideas must work through the brains and the arms of good and brave men or they are no better than dreams.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Dream, Courage, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.3017, Delphi Classics

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• Man exists for his own sake and not to add a laborer to the State.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Sake, Add

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1843-1871”, p.21, University of Georgia Press

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• History no longer shall be a dull book. It shall walk incarnate in every just and wise man. You shall not tell me by language and titles a catalogue of the volumes you have read. You shall make me feel what periods you have lived.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wise, Book, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.25, Graphic Arts Books

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• Art is a jealous mistress.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Jealous, Mistress

  'The Conduct of Life' (1860) 'Wealth'

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• There are three wants which never can be satisfied: that of the rich, who wants something more; that of the sick, who wants something different; and that of the traveler, who says anywhere but here.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Want Something, Sick, Different

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2368, Delphi Classics

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• I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Hate, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1969). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VII: 1838-1842”, p.278, Harvard University Press

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