Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members. The virtue in most request is conformity. Self-reliance… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
...most men have bound their eyes with one or another handkerchief, and attached themselves to some one of these communities of opinion.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“None believeth in the soul of man, but only in some man or person old and departed. Ah me! no man goeth… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I find nothing healthful or exalting in the smooth conventions of society. I do not like the close air of saloons. I… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Yourself a newborn bard of the Holy Ghost, cast behind you all conformity, and acquaint men at first hand with Deity. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If you maintain a dead church, contribute to a dead Bible-society, vote with a great party either for the government or against… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
One lesson we learn early, that in spite of seeming difference, men are all of one pattern. We readily assume this with… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
These are the voices which we hear in solitude, but they grow faint and inaudible as we enter into the world. Society… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Our expense is almost all for conformity. It is for cake that we run in debt; 'tis not the intellect, not the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A man must consider what a blindman's-buff is this game of conformity. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We pray to be conventional. But the wary Heaven takes care you shall not be, if there is anything good in you.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
You must pay for conformity. All goes well as long as you run with conformists. But you, who are honest men in… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The great majority of men grow up and grow old in seeming and following. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks. See the line from a sufficient distance, and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I hope in these days we have heard the last of conformity and consistency. Let the words be gazetted and ridiculous henceforward.Instead… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A man must consider what a rich realm he abdicates when he becomes a conformist. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Your genuine action will explain itself, and will explain your other genuine actions. Your conformity explains nothing. — 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
