Culture Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Culture opens the sense of beauty.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Civilization depends on morality.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Culture, with us, ends in headache

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The highest end of government is the culture of men.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

What is civilization? I answer, the power of good women.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Culture is one thing and varnish is another.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Your goodness must have some edge to it -- else it is none.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A cheerful, intelligent face is the end of culture.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The test of civilization is the power of drawing the most benefit out of cities.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A cheerful intelligent face is the end of culture, and success enough. For it indicates the purpose of Nature and wisdom attained.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

No performance is worth loss of geniality. 'Tis a cruel price we pay for certain fancy goods called fine arts and philosophy.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

We fancy men are individuals; so are pumpkins; but every pumpkin in the field goes through every point of pumpkin history.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

As we refine, our checks become finer. If we rise to spiritual culture, the antagonism takes a spiritual form.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

It the proof of high culture to say the greatest matters in the simplest way.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The land is the appointed remedy for whatever is false and fantastic in our culture...food for our mind, as well as our…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Whilst all the world is in pursuit of power, culture corrects the theory of success.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is for want of self-culture that the superstition of Travelling, whose idols are Italy, England, Egypt, retains its fascinationfor all educated…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

England produces under favorable conditions of ease and culture the finest women in the world. And, as the men are affectionate and…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

But there are higher secrets of culture, which are not for the apprentices, but for proficients. These are lessons only for the…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The time will come when the evil forms we have known can no more be organized. Man's culture can spare nothing, wants…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The saint and poet seek privacy to ends the most public and universal: and it is the secret of culture, to interest…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The best political economy is the care and culture of men; for, in these crises, all are ruined except such as are…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

He only is a well-made man who has a good determination. And the end of culture is not to destroy this, God…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Not out of those, on whom systems of education have exhausted their culture, comes the helpful giant to destroy the old or…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The reward of commercial civilization is the ability to consume a never-ending array of products.There are limits beyond which commodities cannot be…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Culture implies all which gives the mind possession of its own powers, as languages to the critic, telescope to the astronomer. Culture…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Culture is the suggestion, from certain best thoughts, that a man has a range of affinities through which he can modulate the…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Our culture, therefore, must not omit the arming of the man. Let him hear in season, that he is born into the…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

It is the property of the religious spirit to be the most refining of all influences. No external advantages, no culture of…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A man is the prisoner of his power. A topical memory makes him an almanac; a talent for debate, disputant; skill to…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Let a man attain the highest and broadest culture that any American has possessed, then let him die by sea-storm, railroad collision,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

As thinkers, mankind has ever divided into two sects, Materialists and Idealists; the first class founding on experience, the second on consciousness;…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Society cannot do without cultivated men. As soon as the first wants are satisfied, the higher wants become imperative.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

What is a man born for but to be a reformer, a remaker of what has been made, a denouncer of lies,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The foundation of culture, as of character, is at last the moral sentiment.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

God said, I am tired of kings, I suffer them no more; Up to my ear this morning brings The outrage of…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Who makes and keeps the Jew or the Negro base, who but you, who exclude them from the rights which others enjoy?

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nor knowest thou what argument Thy life to thy neighbor's creed has lent. All are needed by each one; Nothing is fair…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A man should have a farm or a mechanical craft for his culture. We must have a basis for our higher accomplishments,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson