I think the vice of our housekeeping is that it does not hold man sacred. The vice of government, the vice of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The great poet makes us feel our own wealth, and then we think less of his compositions. His best communication to our… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Man is timid and apologetic; he is no longer upright; he dares not say "I think," "I am," but quotes some saint… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Thought dissolves the material universe by carrying the mind up into a sphere where all is plastic. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In old Egypt, it was established law, that the vote of a prophet be reckoned equal to a hundred hands. I think… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
They think him the best dressed man, whose dress is so fit for his use that you cannot notice or remember to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
[Whenever the average intellect of the clergy declines in the balance with the average intellect of the people] the churches will be… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Those who stay away from the election think that one vote will do no good. 'Tis but one step more to think… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Little thinks, in the field, yon red-cloaked clown, Of thee, from the hill-top looking down; And the heifer, that lows in the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
He needs no library, for he has not done thinking; no church, for he is himself a prophet; no statute book, for… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
People are timid and apologetic; they are no longer upright; they dare not say "I think," "I am," but quote some saint… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Speak as you think, be what you are, pay your debts of all kinds. I prefer to be owned as sound and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The unique impression of Jesus upon mankind - whose name is not so much written as ploughed into the history of the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The greatest difficulty is that men do not think enough of themselves, do not consider what it is that they are sacrificing… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Man Thinking must not be subdued by his instruments. Books are for the scholar's idle times. When he can read God directly,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There are many faculties in man, each of which takes its turn of activity, and that faculty which is paramount in any… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Life is wasted in the necessary preparation of finding what is the true way, and we die just as we enter it. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Men seek to be great; they would have offices, wealth, power, and fame. They think that to be great is to possess… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Ten percent of people can think, another ten percent of people think that they think, and eighty percent of people would rather… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I think it is the best of humanity that goes out to walk. In happy hours, I think all affairs may be… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The end of being is to know; and if you say, the end of knowledge is action,-why, yes, but the end of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Why needs a man be rich? Why must he have horses, fine garments, handsome apartments, access to public houses, and places of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I wish to say what I think and feel today, with the proviso that tomorrow perhaps I shall contradict it all. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I look on Sculpture as history. I do not think the Apollo and the Jove impossible in flesh and blood. Every trait… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
An imaginative book renders us much more service at first, by stimulating us through its tropes, than afterward, when we arrive atthe… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Is it not better to intimate our astonishment as we pass through this world if it be only for a moment ere… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I have heard that stiff people lose something of their awkwardness under high ceilings, and in spacious halls. I think, sculptureand painting… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The worthless and offensive members of society, whose existence is a social pest, invariably think themselves the most ill-used people alive, and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Religionists are clinging to little, positive, verbal, formal versions of the moral law... while the laws of the Law, the great circling… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The crystal sphere of thought is as concentrical as the geological structure of the globe. As our soils and rocks lie in… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is sublime to think and say of another, I need never meet, or speak, or write to him: we need not… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I suffer whenever I see that common sight of a parent or senior imposing his opinion and way of thinking and being… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud. I am arrived at last… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Though your views are in straight antagonism to theirs, assume an identity of sentiment, assume that you are saying precisely thatwhich all… — 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
By going one step further back in thought, discordant opinions are reconciled by being seen to be two extremes of one principle,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A just thinker will allow full swing to his scepticism. I dip my pen in the blackest ink, because I am not… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I think I have done well, if I have acquired a new word from a good author; and my business with him… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Poverty demoralizes. A man in debt is so far a slave; and Wall-street thinks it easy for a millionaire to be a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The reason why any one refuses his assent to your opinion, or his aid to your benevolent design, is in you: he… — 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
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