Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Page 62

• Mysticism is the mistake of an accidental and individual symbol for an universal one.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Mistake, Individual, Symbols

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1965). “Selected essays, lectures, and poems”, Pocket Books

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• People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Knowing, People, Intellectual

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.491, Library of America

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• Build therefore your own world.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Confidence, World

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.48, Library of America

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• Whoso would be a man, must be a nonconformist. He who would gather immortal palms must not be hindered by the name of goodness, but must explore it if it be goodness. Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. Absolve you to yourself, and you shall have the suffrage of the world.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Integrity, Men

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

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• Of all the ways to lose a person, death is the kindest

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Way, Persons, Loses

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• The maker of a sentence launches out into the infinite and builds a road into Chaos and old Night, and is followed by those who hear him with something of wild, creative delight.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Life, Writing

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt McLaughlin (2010). “The Laws of Nature: Excerpts from the Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.13, North Atlantic Books

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• Society is a wave. The wave moves onward, but the water of which it is composed does not.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Moving, Water, Self Reliance

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1964). “The Early Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.175, Harvard University Press

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• Have mountains, and waves, and skies, no significance but what we consciously give them, when we employ them as emblems of our thoughts?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sky, Giving, Mountain

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.43, Penguin

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• Men do what is called a good action, as some piece of courage or charity, much as they would pay a fine in expiation of daily non-appearance on parade. Their works are done as an apology or extenuation of their living in the world. I do not wish to expiate, but to live. My life is not an apology, but a life.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Apology, Men, Wish

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “Essays: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition”, p.48, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The sinew and heart of man seem to be drawn out, and we are become timorous desponding whimperers. We are afraid of truth, afraid of fortune, afraid of death, and afraid of each other.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Heart, Men, Fortune

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Self-Reliance and Other Essays”, p.32, Courier Corporation

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• But if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars. The rays that come from those heavenly worlds, will separate between him and vulgar things.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Stars, Men, Rays

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.30, Harvard University Press

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• There is no privacy that cannot be penetrated. No secret can be kept in the civilized world. Society is a masked ball where everyone hides his real character, then reveals it by hiding

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Real, Character, Secret

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• That which befits us, embosomed in beauty and wonder as we are, is cheerfulness, and courage, and the endeavor to realize our aspirations. Shall not the heart which has received so much, trust the Power by which it lives? May it not quit other leadings, and listen to the Soul that has guided it so gently, and taught it so much, secure that the future will be worthy of the past?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Heart, Past, Soul

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2004). “A Dream Too Wild: Emerson Meditations for Every Day of the Year”, p.7, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

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• A man's power to connect his thought with its proper symbol, and so to utter it, depends on the simplicity of his character, that is, upon his love of truth, and his desire to communicate it without loss.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Character, Loss, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.288

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• The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors, because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Mind, World, Speech

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.13, Courier Corporation

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• All substances the cunning chemist Time
  Melts down into that liquor of my life.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Time, Substance, Liquor

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Poems”, p.160, The Floating Press

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• Let us leave hurry to slaves.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Time, Slave

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.350, Modern Library

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• Nature is full of freaks, and now puts an old head on young shoulders, and then takes a young heart heating under fourscore winters.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Time, Nature, Heart

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1881). “Representative men. Society and solitude”

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• Today is a king in disguise.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Time, Kings, Today

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1178, Delphi Classics

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• Those who live to the future must always appear selfish to those who live to the present.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Time, Selfish, Future

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.502, Library of America

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• Give me insight into today and you may have the antique and future worlds.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Time, Future, Giving

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1113, Delphi Classics

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• Poverty, Frost, Famine, Rain, Disease, are the beadles and guardsmen that hold us to Common Sense.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Rain, Adversity

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt McLaughlin (2010). “The Laws of Nature: Excerpts from the Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.14, North Atlantic Books

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• Luck is just another word for tenacity of purpose.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Luck

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• Our chief want in life, is,
  someone who shall make us do what we can.
  This is the service of a friend.
  With him we are easily great.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Motivational, Friendship, Want

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.145, Harvard University Press

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• It is one of the biggest blessing that you can be stupid with your true friends and behave like you shame to do elsewhere

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friendship, True Friend, Stupid

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