Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Page 93

• All sensible people are selfish, and nature is tugging at every contract to make the terms of it fair.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Selfish, People

  'The Conduct of Life' (1860) 'Considerations by the way'

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• After thirty, a man wakes up sad every morning, excepting perhaps five or six, until the day of his death.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Morning, Men, Age

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Porte (1982). “Emerson in His Journals”, p.142, Harvard University Press

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• Plato is philosophy, and philosophy, Plato,--at once the glory and the shame of mankind, since neither Saxon nor Roman have availed to add any idea to his categories.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Plato, Philosophy, Philosophical

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2016). “Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson - Plato, or the philosopher”, p.2, Editora Dracaena

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• Life is not intellectual or critical, but sturdy. Its chief good is for well-mixed people who can enjoy what they find, without question.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, People, Intellectual

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.478, Library of America

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• The frost which kills the harvest of a year saves the harvest of a century, by destroying the weevil or the locust.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Years, Frost, Harvest

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1860). “The Conduct of Life”, p.223

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• The mass are animal, in pupilage, and near chimpanzee.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Animal, Mass, Chimpanzees

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.450

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• Do that which you fear to do, and the fear will die.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Dies

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• To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Positive, Wisdom

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

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• Human character evermore publishes itself. The most fugitive deed and word, the intimated purpose, express character.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Character, Deeds And Words, Purpose

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• The beautiful rests on the foundations of the necessary.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beauty, Beautiful, Foundation

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “Culture, Behavior, Beauty: Books, Art Eloquence. Power, Wealth, Illusions”

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• Liberty is slow fruit. It is never cheap; it is made difficult because freedom is the accomplishment and perfectness of man.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Freedom, Men, Liberty

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• No one can read the history of astronomy without perceiving that Copernicus, Newton, Laplace, are not new men, or a new kind of men, but that Thales, Anaximenes, Hipparchus, Empodocles, Aristorchus, Pythagorus, Oenipodes, had anticipated them.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, History, Perception

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1982). “Emerson: Selected Essays”, p.350, Penguin

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• Drive out Nature with a fork, she comes running back.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Running, Nature, Science

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2000). “Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.197, Modern Library

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• Duty grows everywhere--like children, like grass.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Children, Grass, Duty

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1973). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks: 1847-1848”, p.94, Harvard University Press

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• Enthusiasm is the height of man; it is the passing from the human to the divine.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Enthusiasm, Height

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1954). “The Power of Emerson's Wisdom”

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• It is in the stomach of plants that development begins, and ends in the circles of the universe. 'Tis a long scale from the gorilla to the gentleman,--from the gorilla to Plato, Newton, Shakespeare,--to the sanctities of religion, the refinements of legislation, the summit of science, art, and poetry. The beginnings are slow and infirm, but it is an always accelerated march.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Plato, Circles

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1905). “The Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”

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• Nature, through all her kingdoms, insures herself.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Kingdoms

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1856). “Essays”, p.27

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• The astonishment of life is the absence of any appearances of reconciliation between the theory and the practice of life.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Philosophy, Practice, Astonishment

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.95

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• Man carries the world in his head, the whole astronomy and chemistry suspended in a thought. Because the history of nature is charactered in his brain, therefore he is the prophet and discoverer of her secrets. Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Science, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1491, Delphi Classics

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• Every individual man has a bias which he must obey, and...it is only as he feels and obeys this that he rightly develops and attains his legitimate power in the world. It is his magnetic needle, which points always in one direction to his proper path.... He is never happy nor strong until he finds it, keeps it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Strong, Men, One Direction

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• A little integrity is better than any career.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Integrity, Careers, Littles

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Susan Sutton Smith, Ralph H. Orth (1990). “The Topical Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.233, University of Missouri Press

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• A man is like a bit of Labrador spar, which has no luster as you turn it in your hand, until you come to a particular angle; then it shows deep and beautiful colors.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beautiful, Character, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1993). “Self-reliance, and Other Essays”, p.88, Courier Corporation

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• Our first mistake is the belief that the circumstance gives the joy which we give to the circumstance.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Happiness, Mistake, Giving

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.166, Harvard University Press

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• Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other, and thus makes him necessary to society. ... Society can never prosper, but must always be bankrupt, until every man does that which he was created to do.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Age, Doe

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.1003, Library of America

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• Conformity is the ape of harmony.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Peace, Apes, Conformity

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1969). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VII: 1838-1842”, p.492, Harvard University Press

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