The genius is a genius by the first look he casts on any object. Is his eye creative? Does he not rest… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Every ship is a romantic object, except that we sail in. Embark, and the romance quits our vessel, and hangs on every… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
By degrees we may come to know the primitive sense of the permanent objects of nature, so that the world shall be… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The secret of the illusoriness is in the necessity of a succession of moods or objects. Gladly we would anchor, but the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We know that madness belongs to love,--what power to paint a vile object in hues of heaven. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Men are not philosophers, but are rather very foolish children, who, by reason of their partiality, see everything in the most absurd… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Every moment instructs, and every object; for wisdom is infused into every form. It has been poured into us as blood; it… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Marriage (in what is called the spiritual world) is impossible, because of the inequality between every subject and every object. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
What is life but the angle of vision? A man is measured by the angle at which he looks at objects. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Freedom is the essence of this faith. It has for its object simply to make men good and wise. Its institutions then… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The essence of friendship is entireness, a total magnanimity and trust. It must not surmise or provide for infirmity. It treats its… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
As the eye is the best composer, so light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In private places, among sordid objects, an act of truth or heroism seems at once to draw to itself the sky as… — 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
A healthy soul stands united with the Just and the True, as the magnet arranges itself with the pole, so that he… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Every act of the man inscribes itself in the memories of his fellows, and in his own manners and face. The air… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I take this evanescence and lubricity of all objects, which lets them slip through our fingers then when we clutch hardest, to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Is not prayer also a study of truth,--a sally of the soul into the unfound infinite? No man ever prayed heartily, without… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We are thus assisted by natural objects in the expression of particular meanings. But how great a language to convey such pepper-corn… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Our health is our sound relation to external objects; our sympathy with external being. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
What is life but the angle of vision? A man is measured by the angle at which he looks at objects. What… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In my utter impotence to test the authenticity of the report of my senses, to know whether the impressions they make on… — 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
