Individual Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

No society can ever be so large as one man.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

God enters by a private door into every individual.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Mysticism is the mistake of an accidental and individual symbol for an universal one.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The universal does not attract us until housed in an individual.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Washington, where an insignificant individual may trespass on a nation's time.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is one mind common to all individual men

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature is reckless of the individual. When she has points to carry, she carries them.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

An individual has a healthy personality to the exact degree to which they have the propensity to look for the good in…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Proverbs, words, and grammar inflections convey the public sense with more purity and precision, than the wisest individual.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is no prosperity, trade, art, city, or great material wealth of any kind, but if you trace it home, you will…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every man is an infinitely repelling orb, and holds his individual being on that condition.

— 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

We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

An individual is an encloser. Time and space, liberty and necessity, truth and thought, are left at large no longer.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is one mind common to all individual men. Every man is an inlet to the same and to all of the…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

We infer the spirit of the nation in great measure from the language, which is a sort of monument, to which each…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

An individual man is a fruit which it cost all the foregoing ages to form and ripen. He is strong, not to…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

We early arrive at the great discovery that there is one mind common to all individual men: that what is individual is…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every individual man has a bias which he must obey, and...it is only as he feels and obeys this that he rightly…

— 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

In certain men digestion and sex absorb the vital force, and the stronger these are, the individual is so much weaker. The…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier. In the divided or social state these functions are parcelled out…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Masses are rude, lame, unmade, pernicious in their demands and influence, and need not to be flattered, but to be schooled. I…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is one mind common to all individual men. Every man is an inlet to the same and to all of the…

— 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

My friends have come to me unsought. The great God gave them to me. By oldest right, by the divine affinity of…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Genius detects through the fly, through the caterpillar, through the grub, through the egg, the constant individual; through countless individuals the fixed…

— 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

Every individual nature has its own beauty. One is struck in every company, at every fireside, with the riches of nature, when…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Behind every individual closes organization; before him opens liberty,--the Better, the Best. The first and worse races are dead.The second and imperfect…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The results of life are uncalculated and uncalculable. The years teach much which the days never know. The persons who compose our…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The riddle of the age has for each a private solution.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is nothing settled in manners, but the laws of behavior yield to the energy of the individual.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

In the history of the individual is always an account of his condition, and he knows himself to be a party to…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

If the whole of history is in one man, it is all to be explained from individual experience.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

If we must accept fate we are not less compelled to affirm liberty, the significance of the individual, the grandeur of duty,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

In good company, the individuals merge their egotism into a social soul exactly co-extensive with the several consciousnesses there present.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every individual strives to grow and exclude, to the extremities of the universe, and to impose the law of its being on…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The antidote to this abuse of formal Government, is, the influence of private character, the growth of the Individual.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson