Let it suffice that in the light of these two facts, namely, that the mind is One, and that nature is its… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Do you love me? Means at last do you see the same truth I see? If you do, we are happy together;… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The prayer of the farmer kneeling in his field to weed it, the prayer of the rower kneeling with the stroke of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Nothing in nature is exhausted in its first use...In God, every end is converted into a new means. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Existentialism “every appearance in nature corresponds to some state of the mind,” we have entered the familiar Wordsworthian Romantic territory in which… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The good rain, like a bad preacher, does not know when to leave off. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
When nature removes a great man, people explore the horizon for a successor; but none comes, and none will. His class is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Wealth is in applications of mind to nature; and the art of getting rich consists not in industry, much less in saving,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“We know more from nature than we can at will communicate. Its light flows into the mind evermore, and we forget its… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Let the beauty you love be what you do. There are a thousand ways to kneel and kiss the earth. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Creative force, like a musical composer, goes on unweariedly repeating a simple air or theme, now high, now low, in solo, in… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“The poet discovers that what men value as substances have a higher value as symbols; that Nature is the immense shadow of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Nature is thoroughly mediate. It is made to serve. It receives the dominion of man as meekly as the ass on which… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A work of art is an abstract or epitome of the world. It is the result or expression of nature, in miniature.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Nothing is quite beautiful alone: nothing but is beautiful in the whole. A single object is only so far beautiful as it… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The mob is man voluntarily descending to the nature of the beast. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There is a relation between the hours of our life and the centuries of time. As the air I breathe is drawn… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The universe is the externisation of the soul. Wherever the life is, that bursts into appearance around it. Our science is sensual,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Out from the heart of Nature rolled The burdens of the Bible old. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The happiest man is he who learns from nature the lesson of worship — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Standing on the bare ground,--my head bathed by the blithe air and uplifted into infinite space,--all mean egotism vanishes. I become a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Heaven always bears some proportion to earth. The god of the cannibal will be a cannibal, of the crusades a crusader, 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