Faith and love are apt to be spasmodic in the best minds: Men live on the brink of mysteries and harmonies into… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The first in time and the first in importance of the influences upon the mind is that of nature. Every day, the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“The practical common-sense of modern society, the utilitarian direction which labor, laws, opinion, religion, take, is the natural genius of the British… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The intellectual life may be kept clean and healthful, if man will live the life of nature, and not import into his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If speculation tends thus to a terrific unity, in which all things are absorbed, action tends directly back to diversity. The first… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact. Every appearance in nature corresponds to some state of the mind, and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“The true poem is the poet's mind; the true ship is the ship-builder. In the man, could we lay him open, we… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Nature has made up her mind that what cannot defend itself shall not be defended. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
No nation has produced anything like his equal. There is no quality in the human mind, there is no class of topics,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Do you think the porter and the cook have no anecdotes, no experiences, no wonders for you? The walls of their minds… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“It facilitates labor and thought so much that there is always the temptation in large schools to omit the endless task of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The moment our discourse rises above the ground-line of familiar facts, and is inflamed with passion or exalted thought, it clothes itself… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven depending on whether they compare it to something better and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The mind is a finer body, and resumes its functions of feeding, digesting, absorbing, excluding, and generating, in a new and ethereal… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I know of no such unquestionable badge and ensign of a sovereign mind as that of tenacity of purpose... — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The intellect is vagabond, and our system of education fosters restlessness. Our minds travel when our bodies are forced to stay at… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
To a dull mind all of nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world burns and sparkles with light. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
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
Undoubtedly we have no questions to ask which are unanswerable. We must trust the perfection of the creation so far, as to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The need for a rational consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds. — 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 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
