We will walk on our own feet; we will work with our own hands; we will speak our own minds... A nation… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
All power is of one kind, a sharing of the nature of the world. The mind that is parallel with the laws… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Health is the first muse, comprising the magical benefits of air, landscape, and bodily exercise on the mind. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Each truth that a writer acquires is a lantern, which he turns full on what facts and thoughts lay already in his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
To the body and mind which have been cramped by noxious work or company, nature is medicinal and restores their tone. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Time is indeed the theater and seat of illusions; nothing is so ductile and elastic. The mind stretches an hour to a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The land is the appointed remedy for whatever is false and fantastic in our culture...food for our mind, as well as our… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A man should not go where he cannot carry his whole sphere or society with him,Mnot bodily, the whole circle of his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Man is the broken giant, and in all his weakness both his body and his mind are invigorated by habits of conversation… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The constructive intellect [genius] produces thoughts, sentences, poems, plans, designs, systems. It is the generation of the mind, the marriage of thought… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Generalization is always a new influx of divinity into the mind. Hence the thrill that attends it. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The great object of Education should be commensurate with the object of life. It should be a moral one; to teach self-trust:… — 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
All natural objects make a kindred impression, when the mind is open to their influence. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Women stand related to beautiful nature around us, and the enamoured youth mixes their form with moon and stars, with woods and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The Transcendentalist adopts the whole connection of spiritual doctrine. He believes in miracle, in the perpetual openness of thehuman mind to new… — 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… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Nature is the incarnation of thought. The world is the mind precipitated. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Whoso would be a man, must be a nonconformist. He who would gather immortal palms must not be hindered by the name… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The great poet makes us feel our own wealth, and then we think less of his compositions. His best communication to our… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Meantime the education of the general mind never stops. The reveries of the true and simple are prophetic. What the tender poeticyouth… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Every day, the sun; and, after sunset, night and her stars. Ever the winds blow; ever the grass grows. Every day, men… — 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
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