Property Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Thought is the property of those only who can entertain it. -”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

If a man owns land, the land owns him.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The subject is said to have the property of making dull men eloquent.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Greatness is a property for which no man gets credit too soon; it must be possessed long before it is acknowledged.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The whole constitution of property on its present tenures, is injurious, and its influence on persons deteriorating and degrading.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Open the doors of opportunity to talent and virtue and they will do themselves justice, and property will not be in bad…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Thought is the property of him who can entertain it, and of him who can adequately place it.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

As long as our civilization is essentially one of property, of fences, of exclusiveness, it will be mocked by delusions.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

And so the reliance on Property, including the reliance on governments which protect it, is the want of self-reliance.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

In the Greek cities, it was reckoned profane, that any person should pretend a property in a work of art, which belonged…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Let the amelioration in our laws of property proceed from the concession of the rich, not from the grasping of the poor.…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Natural science sharpens the discrimination. There is no false logic in nature. All its properties are permanent: the acids and metals never…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

We take care of our health; we lay up money; we make our roof tight, and our clothing sufficient; but who provides…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Personal rights, universally the same, demand a government framed on the ratio of the census: property demands a government framedon the ratio…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Whilst the rights of all as persons are equal, in virtue of their access to reason, their rights in property are very…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I must feel pride in my friend's accomplishments as if they were mine,--and a property in his virtues. I feel as warmly…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Old & New put their stamp to everything in Nature. The snowflake that is now falling is marked by both. The present…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

As Arkwright and Whitney were the demi-gods of cotton, so prolific Time will yet bring an inventor to every plant. There is…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

On the other side, the conservative party, composed of the most moderate, able, and cultivated part of the population, is timid, and…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Men have looked away from themselves and at things so long that they have come to esteem the religious, learned and civil…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Explore, and explore, and explore. Be neither chided nor flattered out of your position of perpetual inquiry. Neither dogmatise yourself, nor accept…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The charming landscape which I saw this morning is indubitably made up of some twenty or thirty farms. Miller owns this field,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

As long as civilization is essentially one of property, of fences, of exclusiveness, it will be mocked by delusions. Our riches will…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is the property of the religious spirit to be the most refining of all influences. No external advantages, no culture of…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is no country in which so absolute a homage is paid to wealth. In America there is a touch of shame…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Eyes are bold as lions,--roving, running, leaping, here and there, far and near. They speak all languages. They wait for no introduction;…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is a property in the horizon which no man has, but he whose eyes can integrate all the parts,--that is, the…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

No man acquires property without acquiring with it a little arithmetic also.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is easy to see that a greater self-reliance must work a revolution in all the offices and relations of men; in…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

When a man becomes cultivated, he develops a new respect for who he is. This causes him to be ashamed of his…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Man was born to be rich, or grow rich by use of his faculties, by the union of thought with nature. Property…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The democrat is a young conservative; the conservative is an old democrat. The aristocrat is the democrat ripe, and gone to seed,--because…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Wealth brings with it its own checks and balances. The basis of political economy is noninterference. The only safe rule is found…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

And what avails it that science has come to treat space and time as simply forms of thought, and the material world…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The one prudence in life is concentration; the one evil is dissipation: and it makes no difference whether our dissipations are coarse…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life is girt all round with a zodiac of sciences, the contributions of men who have perished to add their point of…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson