Spirituality Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every man contemplates an angel in his future self.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The eyes indicate the antiquity of the soul.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is one soul which animates all men.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is more in every person's soul than we think.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

All things are known to the soul.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Beauty is the pilot of the young soul.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Wait, and thy soul shall speak.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The universe is the externalization of the soul.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The soul is superior to its knowledge; wiser than any of its works.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

None believeth in the soul of man, but only in some man or person old and departed.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Spiritual force is stronger than material force; thoughts rule the world.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as strong to think.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The imaginative faculty of the soul must be fed with objects immense and eternal.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The love that you withhold is the pain that you carry.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

But your isolation must not be mechanical, but spiritual, that is, must be elevation.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Yet time and space are but inverse measures of the force of the soul. The spirit sports with time.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatest of the soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood; and if there is any truth in him, if he rests at last…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“There may be two or three or four steps, according to the genius of each, but for every seeing soul there are…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

There the great Planter plants Of fruitful worlds the grain, And with a million spells enchants The souls that walk in pain.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment. The one thing in the world, of value,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Go cherish your soul; express companions; set your habits to a life of solitude; then will the faculties rise fair and full…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

In the true mythology, Love is an immortal child, and Beauty leads him as a guide; nor can we express a deeper…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

We see the world piece by piece, as the sun, the moon, the animal, the tree; but the whole, of which these…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The House ...She lays her beams in music, In music every ore, To the candence of the whirling world Which dances round…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

That for which Paul lived and died so gloriously; that for which Jesus gave himself to be crucified; the end that animated…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Do you want to be a power in the world? Then be yourself. Be true to the highest within your soul and…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The reliance on authority measures the decline of religion, the withdrawal of the soul. The position men have given to Jesus, now…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

No reason can be asked or given why the soul seeks beauty. Beauty, in its largest and profoundest sense, is one expression…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I read the other day some verses written by an eminent painter which were original and not conventional. The soul always hears…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

What we commonly call man, the eating, drinking, planting, counting man, does not, as we know him, represent himself, but misrepresents himself.…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not. The…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“As, in useful art, so far as it is useful, the work must be strictly subordinated to the laws of Nature, so…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

For all our penny-wisdom, for all our soul-destroying slavery to habit, it is not to be doubted that all men have sublime…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Solitude, the safeguard of mediocrity, is to genius the stern friend, the cold, obscure shelter where moult the wings which will bear…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

For, the sense of being which in calm hours rises, we know not how, in the soul, is not diverse from things,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson