Moral Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

I consider theology to be the rhetoric of morals.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Governments have their origin in the moral identity of men.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

People are very inclined to set moral standards for others.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Preaching is the expression of moral sentiments applied to the duties of life.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

If the vast and the spiritual are omitted, so are the practical and the moral.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Moral qualities rule the world, but at short distances the senses are despotic.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Any extraordinary degree of beauty in man or woman involves a moral charm.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The foundation of culture, as of character, is at last the moral sentiment.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

All things are moral. That soul, which within us is a sentiment, outside of us is a law. We feel its inspiration;…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The evolution of a highly destined society must be moral; it must run in the grooves of the celestial wheels.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

If thought makes free, so does the moral sentiment. The mixtures of spiritual chemistry refuse to be analyzed.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Preaching is the expression of the moral sentiment in application to the duties of life.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The progress of religion is steadily to its identity with morals. Strength enters just as much as the moral element prevails.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Character repudiates intellect, yet excites it; and character passes into thought, is published so, and then is ashamed before newflashes of moral…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every word which is used to express a moral or intellectual fact, if traced to its root, is found to be borrowed…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The cure for false theology is motherwit. Forget your books and traditions, and obey your moral perceptions at this hour.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

And last of all, high over thought, in the world of morals, Fate appears as vindicator, levelling the high, lifting the low,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

The dogma of the mystic offices of Christ being dropped, and he standing on his genius as a moral teacher, 'tis impossible…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Our friendships hurry to short and poor conclusions, because we have made them a texture of wine and dreams, instead of the…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The moral sense reappears today with the same morning newness that has been from of old the fountain of beauty and strength.…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I could better eat with one who did not respect the truth or the laws, than with a sloven and unpresentable person.…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Thus grows up fashion, an equivocal semblance, the most puissant, the most fantastic and frivolous, the most feared and followed, and which…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

As men get on in life, they acquire a love for sincerity, and somewhat less solicitude to be lulled or amused. In…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Physical force has no value, where there is nothing else. Snow in snow-banks, fire in volcanoes and solfataras is cheap. The luxury…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I have heard that whoever loves is in no condition old. I have heard that whenever the name of man is spoken,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

We live in a very low state of the world, and pay unwilling tribute to government founded on force. There is not,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Is it not manifest that our academic institutions should have a wider scope; that they should not be timid and keep the…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is an intimate interdependence of intellect and morals.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

All high beauty has a moral element in it.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The moral sense is always supported by the permanent interest of the parties. Else, I know not how, in our world, any…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Since everything in nature answers to a moral power, if any phenomenon remains brute and dark, it is that the corresponding faculty…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Natural religion supplies still all the facts which are disguised under the dogma of popular creeds. The progress of religion is steadily…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The civility of the world has reached that pitch that their more moral genius is becoming indispensable, and the quality of this…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

All things are moral; and in their boundless changes have an unceasing reference to spiritual nature.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Science in England, in America, is jealous of theory, hates the name of love and moral purpose. There's revenge for this humanity.What…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is true that genius takes its rise out of the mountains of rectitude; that all beauty and power which men covet…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The moral equalizes all; enriches, empowers all. It is the coin which buys all, and which all find in their pocket. Under…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Whoever has had the experience of the moral sentiment cannot choose but believe in unlimited power. Each pulse from that heart isan…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A man is but a little thing in the midst of the objects of nature, yet, by the moral quality radiating from…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson