No picture of life can have any veracity that does not admit the odious facts. A man's power is hooped in by… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The soul comes from without into the human body, as into a temporary abode, and it goes out of it anew it… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The consciousness in each man is a sliding scale, which identifies him now with the First Cause, and now with the flesh… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Liberty is slow fruit. It is never cheap; it is made difficult because freedom is the accomplishment and perfectness of man. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We hear eagerly every thought and word quoted from an intellectual man. But in his presence our own mind is roused to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Men have looked away from themselves and at things so long that they have come to esteem the religious, learned and civil… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There is a time when a man distinguishes the idea of felicity from the idea of wealth; it is the beginning of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The scholar is that man who must take up into himself all the ability of the time, all the contributions of the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The secret of culture is to learn, that a few great points steadily reappear, alike in the poverty of the obscurest farm,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The whole secret of the teacher's force lies in the conviction that men are convertible. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The life of man is a self-evolving circle, which, from a ring imperceptibly small, rushes on all sides outwards to new and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Beauty brings its own fancy price, for all that a man hath will he give for his love. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is a capital blunder; as you discover, when another man recites his charities. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We must have kings, we must have nobles; nature is always providing such in every society; only let us have the real… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts. The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn, and Egypt, Greece, Rome,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Life is comic or pitiful as soon as the high ends of being fade out of sight, and man becomes near-sighted, and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The great man, that is, the man most imbued with the spirit of the time, is the impressionable man. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs. RALPH WALDO EMERSON, Journals and… — 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
