Criticism is infested with the cant of materialism, which assumes that manual skill and activity is the first merit of all men,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Perception is a mirror not a fact. And what I look on is my state of mind, reflected outward. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The primary wisdom is intuition. In that deep force, the last fact behind which analysis cannot go, all things find their origin. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A fact is the end or last issue of spirit. The visible creation is the terminus or the circumference of the invisible… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Nature is a language and every new fact one learns is a new word; but it is not a language taken to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The idealism of Berkeley is only a crude statement of the idealism of Jesus, and that again is a crude statement of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The poet alone knows astronomy, chemistry, vegetation, and animation, for he does not stop at these facts, but employs them as signs.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The orator is thereby an orator that keeps his feet ever on a fact. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Intellect is void of affection and sees an object as it stands in the light of science, cool and disengaged. The intellect… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is not an arbitrary "decree of God," but in the nature of man, that a veil shuts down on the facts… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
So in accepting the leading of the sentiments, it is not what we believe concerning the immortality of the soul, or the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The office of the scholar is to cheer, to raise, and to guide men by showing them facts amidst appearances. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
For every seeing soul, there are two absorbing facts - I, and the abyss. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The walls of rude minds are scrawled all over with facts, with thoughts. They shall one day bring a lantern and read… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Not for nothing one face, one character, one fact makes much impression on him, and another none. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The right merchant is one who has the just average of faculties we call common sense; a man of a strong affinity… — 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
