Nature of man Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

24 Nature of man quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Emerson’s meditations on what it means to be human weave together philosophy and observation. In these 24 quotes you’ll find his keen eye on ambition, morality, and the inner drive that shapes our lives.

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All mankind loves a lover.

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All mankind love a lover.

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Things are in the saddle. And ride mankind.

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The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.

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Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for competitors.

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Make yourself necessary to the world, and mankind will give you bread.

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There is a certain wisdom of humanity which is common to the greatest men with the lowest, and which our ordinary education…

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Human society is made up of partialities. Each citizen has an interest and a view of his own, which, if followed out…

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Mankind divides itself into two classes,--benefactors and malefactors. The second class is vast; the first a handful.

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Mankind have such a deep stake in inward illumination, that there is much to be said by the hermit or monk in…

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Man is the will, and woman the sentiment. In this ship of humanity, Will is the rudder, and Sentiment the sail; when…

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Every man beholds his human condition with a degree of melancholy. As a ship aground is battered by the waves, so man,…

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The human body is a magazine of inventions, the patent office, where are the models from which every hint is taken. All…

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The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which…

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It is not an arbitrary "decree of God," but in the nature of man, that a veil shuts down on the facts…

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And truly it demands something god like in him who has cast off the common motives of humanity, and has ventured to…

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“The world of any moment is the merest appearance. Some great decorum, some fetish of government, some ephemeral trade, or war, or…

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

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Each man too is a tyrant in tendency, because he would impose his idea on others; and their trick is their natural…

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As thinkers, mankind has ever divided into two sects, Materialists and Idealists; the first class founding on experience, the second on consciousness;…

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Who shall set a limit to the influence of a human being? There are men, who, by their sympathetic attractions, carry nations…

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Nor has science sufficient humanity, so long as the naturalist overlooks the wonderful congruity which subsists between man and the world; of…

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“Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet. Then all things are at risk. It is as when…

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“One man thinks justice consists in paying debts, and has no measure in his abhorrence of another who is very remiss in…

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Consideration is the soil in which wisdom may be expected to grow, and strength be given to every up-springing plant of duty.

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“There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book…

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The order of things consents to virtue.

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Life only avails, not the having lived.

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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…

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A child reminds us that playtime is an essential part of our daily routine.

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No man can be criticised but by a greater than he. Do not, then, read the reviews.

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I am; therefore, I had nothing better to do than to think.

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In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends, but they are imprisoned by an enchanter in these paper and leathern…

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The compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time. A fever, a mutilation, a cruel disappointment, a…

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