Yet time and space are but inverse measures of the force of the soul. The spirit sports with time. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“The things that are seen, are temporal; the things that are unseen, are eternal." It” — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
My evening visitors, if they cannot see the clock should find the time in my face. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I am constrained every moment to acknowledge a higher origin for events than the will I call mine. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is the quality of the moment, not the number of days, or events, or of actors, that imports. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
For the resolute and determined, there is time and opportunity. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
These times of ours are series and full of calamity, but all times are essentially alike. As soon as there is life… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The scholar is that man who must take up into himself all the ability of the time, all the contributions of the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
No facts are to me sacred; none are profane; I simply experiment, an endless seeker, with no past at my back. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Is the parent better than the child into whom he has cast his ripened being? Whence, then, this worship of the past? — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
These arts open great gates of a future, promising to make the world plastic and to lift human life out of its… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In the actual world--the painful kingdom of time and place--dwell care, and canker, and fear. With thought, with the ideal, is immortal… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Why should we grope among the dry bones of the past, or put the living generation into masquerade out of its faded… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Men are not philosophers, but are rather very foolish children, who, by reason of their partiality, see everything in the most absurd… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The magnanimous know verywell that they who give time, or money, or shelter, to the strangerso it be done for love, and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
What we do not call education is more precious than that which we call so. We form no guess, at the time… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
For poetry was all written before time was, and whenever we are so finely organized that we can penetrate into that region… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The roses under my window make no reference to former roses or better ones; they are what they are; they exist with… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The good news is that the moment you decide that what you know is more important than what you have been taught… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The essence of all jokes, of all comedy, seems to be an honest or well intended halfness; a non performance of that… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time. A fever, a mutilation, a cruel… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“What is the scholar, what is the man for, but for hospitality to every new thought of his time? Have you leisure,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
We cannot describe the natural history of the soul, but we know that it is divine. All things are known to the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Valor consists in the power of self-recovery, so that a man cannot have his flank turned, cannot be out-generalled, but put him… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide;… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
And what avails it that science has come to treat space and time as simply forms of thought, and the material world… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“So when the soul of the poet has come to ripeness of thought, she detaches and sends away from it its poems… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“It is the essence of poetry to spring, like the rainbow daughter of Wonder, from the invisible, to abolish the past, and… — 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
