Conscious Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

10 Conscious quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Emerson’s transcendental voice shines in these ten snippets, each nudging the mind toward a deeper awareness of self and nature.

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The conscious utterance of thought, by speech or action, to any end, is art.

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The age of puberty is a crisis in the age of man worth studying. It is the passage from the unconscious to…

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I appeal now to the convictions of the communicants, and ask such persons whether they have not been occasionally conscious of a…

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Jesus and Shakespeare are fragments of the soul, and by love I conquer and incorporate them in my own conscious domain. His…

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The preamble of thought, the transition through which it passes from the unconscious to the conscious, is action. Only so much do…

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The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the aisles of Christian Rome, Wrought in a sad sincerity; Himself from God he…

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Life has no memory. That which proceeds in succession might be remembered, but that which is coexistent, or ejaculated from a deeper…

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Where is he who seeing a thousand men useless and unhappy, and making the whole region forlorn by their inaction, and conscious…

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With each divine impulse the mind rends the thin rinds of the visible and finite, and comes out into eternity, and inspires…

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“The conscious utterance of thought, by speech or action, to any end, is Art. From the first imitative babble of a child…

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Consideration is the soil in which wisdom may be expected to grow, and strength be given to every up-springing plant of duty.

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The order of things consents to virtue.

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Life only avails, not the having lived.

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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…

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A child reminds us that playtime is an essential part of our daily routine.

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No man can be criticised but by a greater than he. Do not, then, read the reviews.

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Coal lay in ledges under the ground since the Flood, until a laborer with pick and windlass brings it to the surface. We may…

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I am; therefore, I had nothing better to do than to think.

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In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends, but they are imprisoned by an enchanter in these paper and leathern…

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The compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time. A fever, a mutilation, a cruel disappointment, a…

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