By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. In fact, it is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Fate, then, is a name for facts not yet passed under the fire of thought; for causes which are unpenetrated. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
All public facts are to be individualized, all private facts are to be generalized. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Beside all the small reasons we assign, there is a great reason for the existence of every extant fact; a reason which… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
So in accepting the leading of the sentiments, it is not what we believe concerning the immortality of the soul, or the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There are many virtues in books, but the essential value is the adding of knowledge to our stock by the record of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
This one fact the world hates; that the soul becomes; for that forever degrades the past, turns all riches to poverty, all… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact. Every appearance in nature corresponds to some state of the mind, and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Eloquence must be grounded on the plainest narrative. Afterwards, it may warm itself until it exhales symbols of every kind and color,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Let us stun and astonish the intruding rabble of men and books and institutions by a simple declaration of the divine fact.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Intellect is void of affection and sees an object as it stands in the light of science, cool and disengaged. The intellect… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We teach boys to be such men as we are. We do not teach them to aspire to be all they can.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Each truth that a writer acquires is a lantern, which he turns full on what facts and thoughts lay already in his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Nor has science sufficient humanity, so long as the naturalist overlooks the wonderful congruity which subsists between man and the world; of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
But lest I should mislead any when I have my own head and obey my whims, let me remind the reader that… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Nature is a language and every new fact one learns is a new word; but it is not a language taken to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I find nothing in fables more astonishing than my experience in every hour. One moment of a man's life is a fact… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
No picture of life can have any veracity that does not admit the odious facts. A man's power is hooped in by… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The senses collect the surface facts of matter... It was sensation; when memory came, it was experience; when mind acted, it was… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
One lesson we learn early, that in spite of seeming difference, men are all of one pattern. We readily assume this with… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The idealism of Berkeley is only a crude statement of the idealism of Jesus, and that again is a crude statement of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The mark of the man of the world is absence of pretension. He does not make a speech; he takes a low… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts. The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn, and Egypt, Greece, Rome,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Society is the stage on which manners are shown; novels are the literature. Novels are the journal or record of manners; and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We may like well to know what is Plato’s and what is Montesquieu’s or Goethe’s part, and what thought was always dear… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The key to every man is his thought. Sturdy and defying though he look, he has a helm which he obeys, which… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Natural religion supplies still all the facts which are disguised under the dogma of popular creeds. The progress of religion is steadily… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Man carries the world in his head, the whole astronomy and chemistry suspended in a thought. Because the history of nature is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share
If we will not interfere with our thought, but will act entirely, or see how the thing stands in God, we know the particular… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share
If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share
A man cannot speak but he judges himself. With his will or against his will he draws his portrait to the eye of his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share
Consideration is the soil in which wisdom may be expected to grow, and strength be given to every up-springing plant of duty. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share
“There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share
Another success is the post-office, with its educating energy augmented by cheapness and guarded by a certain religious sentimentin mankind; so that the power… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share
A child reminds us that playtime is an essential part of our daily routine. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share
No man can be criticised but by a greater than he. Do not, then, read the reviews. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share
Coal lay in ledges under the ground since the Flood, until a laborer with pick and windlass brings it to the surface. We may… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share
In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends, but they are imprisoned by an enchanter in these paper and leathern… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share
The compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time. A fever, a mutilation, a cruel disappointment, a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share
