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Psychology Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

178 Psychology quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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A page that glows when the mind works shows how effort lights up what you read. The quotes say that each person shares one common mind, so what is individual blends into something larger. They also stress that protecting the integrity of your own mind is the highest sacred thing.

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I'm happier. I guess I made up my mind to be that way.

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A great mind is a good sailor, as a great heart is.

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“Other men are lenses through which we read our own minds.”

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Stand guard at the portal of your mind.

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The the illuminated mind the whole world sparkles with light.

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There is one mind common to all individual men

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The rich mind lies in the sun and sleeps, and is Nature.

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“Words are finite organs of the infinite mind.”

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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.

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“so much of nature as he is ignorant of,so much of his own mind does not yet posess”

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Our knowledge is the amassed thought and experience of innumerable minds.

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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.

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A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.

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Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.

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A divine person is the prophecy of the mind; a friend is the hope of the heart.

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“The energy of the mind is commensurate with the work to be done.”

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Nothing divine dies. All good is eternally reproductive. The beauty of Nature re-forms itself in the mind, and not for barren contemplation,…

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People forget that it is the eye which makes the horizon, and the rounding mind's eye which makes this or that man…

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“The practical common-sense of modern society, the utilitarian direction which labor, laws, opinion, religion, take, is the natural genius of the British…

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It is only when mind and character slumber that the dress can be seen. If the intellect were always awake, and every…

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To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven depending on whether they compare it to something better and…

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The Transcendentalist adopts the whole connection of spiritual doctrine. He believes in miracle, in the perpetual openness of thehuman mind to new…

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I am so much a Unitarian as this: that I believe the human mind can admit but one God, and that every…

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“What is the soul? Commonly, it’s defined as an immortal spirit placed inside each person’s body by God. But Emerson had a…

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Converse with a mind that is grandly simple, and literature looks like word-catching. The simplest utterances are worthiest to bewritten, yet are…

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A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul…

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The stars awaken a certain reverence, because though always present, they are inaccessible; but all natural objects make a kindred impression, when…

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The moment our discourse rises above the ground-line of familiar facts, and is inflamed with passion or exalted thought, it clothes itself…

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It is the property of the religious spirit to be the most refining of all influences. No external advantages, no culture of…

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“It facilitates labor and thought so much that there is always the temptation in large schools to omit the endless task of…

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The refining influence is the study of art, which is the science of beauty; and I find that every man values every…

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There are twenty ways of going to a point, and one is the shortest; but set out at once on one. A…

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“What pretty oracles nature yields us on this text, in the face and behaviour of children, babes, and even brutes! That divided…

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“Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. A…

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When I converse with a profound mind, or if at any time being alone I have good thoughts, I do not at…

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It must be that when God speaketh, he should communicate, not one thing, but all things; should fill the world with his…

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“The man not only thinks, but speaks and acts. Every thought that arises in the mind, in its rising aims to pass…

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“Existentialism “every appearance in nature corresponds to some state of the mind,” we have entered the familiar Wordsworthian Romantic territory in which…

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“A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul…

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The soul is the perceiver and revealer of truth. We know truth when we see it, let skeptic and scoffer say what…

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The order of things consents to virtue.

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Life only avails, not the having lived.

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A child reminds us that playtime is an essential part of our daily routine.

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No man can be criticised but by a greater than he. Do not, then, read the reviews.

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I am; therefore, I had nothing better to do than to think.

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The compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time. A fever, a mutilation, a cruel disappointment, a…

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