So shall we come to look at the world with new eyes. It shall answer the endless inquiry of the intellect, —… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
No power of genius has ever yet had the smallest success in explaining existence. The perfect enigma remains. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
These arts open great gates of a future, promising to make the world plastic and to lift human life out of its… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Before a leaf-bud has burst, its whole life acts; in the full-blown flower there is no more; in the leafless root there… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There are no days in life that are so memorable as those that vibrate to some stroke of the imagination. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical decisive hour. Write it on your heart… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny;… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
He decided to give up his large ambition of knowledge and action for any narrow craft or profession, aiming at a much… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The exceptional life depends not on working harder, but on different, even opposite, actions from habit and the crowd. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
How many attractions for us have our passing fellows in the streets, both male and female, which our ethics forbid us to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The brevity of human life gives a melancholy to the profession of the architect. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The wise man in the storm prays God not for safety from danger but for deliverance from fear. It is the storm… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Our life seems not present, so much as prospective; not for the affairs on which it is wasted, but as a hint… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Most of the shadows of life are caused by standing in our own sunshine. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Our prejudices are our robbers, they rob us valuable things in life. People only see what they are prepared to see. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I am not engaged to Christianity by decent forms, or saving ordinances; it is not usage, it is not what I do… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A man passes for that he is worth. What he is engraves itself on his face, on his form, on his fortunes,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The South-wind brings Life, sunshine and desire, And on every mount and meadow Breathes aromatic fire; But over the dead he has… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“It is not the length of life, but the depth of life. He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Let the stoics say what they please, we do not eat for the good of living, but because the meat is savory… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine. — 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
