A complete man should need no auxiliaries to his personal presence. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There is no event greater in life than the appearance of new persons about our hearth, except it be the progress of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is only when mind and character slumber that the dress can be seen. If the intellect were always awake, and every… — 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
Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls. The least admixture of a lie-for example, the taint… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Proverbs, like the sacred books of each nation, are the sanctuary of the intuitions. That which the droning world, chained to appearances,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Every word which is used to express a moral or intellectual fact, if traced to its root, is found to be borrowed… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The universe is the externisation of the soul. Wherever the life is, that bursts into appearance around it. Our science is sensual,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Let the realist not mind appearances. Let him delegate to others the costly courtesies and decorations of social life. The virtuesare economists,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Prudence is the virtue of the senses. It is the science of appearances. It is the outmost action of the inward life. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Men do what is called a good action, as some piece of courage or charity, much as they would pay a fine… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We first share the life by which things exist, and afterwards see them as appearances in nature, and forget that we have… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Nature never wears a mean appearance. Neither does the wisest man extort her secret, and lose his curiosity by finding out all… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Hence, the less government we have, the better,--the fewer laws, and the less confided power. The antidote to this abuse of formalGovernment,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Power obeys reality, and not appearances; power is according to quality, and not quantity. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Outside among your fellows, among strangers, you must preserve appearances, a hundred things you cannot do; but inside, the terrible freedom. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The astonishment of life is the absence of any appearances of reconciliation between the theory and the practice of life. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Men are like Geneva watches with crystal faces, which expose the whole movement. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I am ashamed to think how easily we capitulate to badges and names, to large societies and dead institutions. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The stars awaken a certain reverence, because though always present, they are inaccessible; but all natural objects make a kindred impression, when… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Every fact is related on one side to sensation, and, on the other, to morals. The game of thought is, on the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The stars awaken a certain reverence, because though always present, they are inaccessible; but all natural objects make a kindred impression, when… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
To educate the wise man, the State exists; and with the appearance of the wise man, the State expires. The appearance of… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
A child reminds us that playtime is an essential part of our daily routine. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
No man can be criticised but by a greater than he. Do not, then, read the reviews. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
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 Image
