There is in nature a parallel unity which corresponds to the unity in the mind and makes it available. This methodizing mind… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The laws of light and of heat translate each other;-so do the laws of sound and colour; and so galvanism, electricity and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Nothing divine dies. All good is eternally reproductive. The beauty of Nature re-forms itself in the mind, and not for barren contemplation,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
And what avails it that science has come to treat space and time as simply forms of thought, and the material world… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The eye is the first circle; the horizon which it forms is the second; and throughout nature this primary figure is repeated… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
And striving to be Man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
By fate, not option, frugal Nature gave One scent to hyson and to wall-flower, One sound to pine-groves and to water-falls, One… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I am not so foolish as to declaim against forms. Forms are as essential as bodies; but to exalt particular forms, to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The glance is natural magic. The mysterious communication established across a house between two entire strangers, moves all the springs of wonder.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The Same, the Same: friend and foe are of one stuff; the ploughman, the plough, and the furrow, are of one stuff;… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A friend, therefore, is a sort of paradox in nature. I who alone am, I who see nothing in nature whose existence… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
All men are in some degree impressed by the face of the world; some men even to delight. This love of beauty… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Imagination is a very high sort of seeing, which does not come by study, but by the intellect being where and what… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There is some reason to believe that when a man does not write his poetry it escapes by other vents through him,… — 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