There is no thought in any mind, but it quickly tends to convert itself into power. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Each mind has its own method. A true man never acquires after college rules. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until an equal mind and heart finds and publishes it. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
To the body and mind which have been cramped by noxious work or company, nature is medicinal and restores their tone. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Generalization is always a new influx of divinity into the mind. Hence the thrill that attends it. — 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
Truth is always present; it only needs to lift the iron lids of the mind's eye to read its oracles. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Thought dissolves the material universe by carrying the mind up into a sphere where all is plastic. — 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… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Spring still makes spring in the mind When sixty years are told: Love wakes anew this throbbing heart, And we are never… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I am so much a Unitarian as this: that I believe the human mind can admit but one God, and that every… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“What is the soul? Commonly, it’s defined as an immortal spirit placed inside each person’s body by God. But Emerson had a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
When the act of reflection takes place in the mind, when we look at ourselves in the light of thought, we discover… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Cowardice shuts the eyes till the sky is not larger than a calf-skin: shuts the eyes so that we cannot see the… — 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
A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The intellect searches out the Absolute order of things as they stand in the mind of God, and without the colors of… — 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
A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Meantime the education of the general mind never stops. The reveries of the true and simple are prophetic. What the tender poeticyouth… — 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
To the body and mind which have been cramped by noxious work or company, nature is medicinal and restores their tone. The… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
To the young mind every thing is individual, stands by itself. By and by, it finds how to join two things and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Each truth that a writer acquires is a lantern, which he turns full on what facts and thoughts lay already in his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Health is the first muse, comprising the magical benefits of air, landscape, and bodily exercise on the mind. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
He then learns that in going down into the secrets of his own mind, he has descended into the secrets of all… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“The mind of this country, taught to aim at low objects, feeds upon itself.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Bare lists of words are found suggestive to an imaginative and excited mind. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The mind does not create what it perceives, any more than the eye creates the rose. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Perception is a mirror not a fact. And what I look on is my state of mind, reflected outward. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In every company, there is not only the active and passive sex, but, in both men and women, a deeper and more… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The growth of the intellect is spontaneous in every expansion. The mind that grows could not predict the times, the means, the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Time is indeed the theater and seat of illusions; nothing is so ductile and elastic. The mind stretches an hour to a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The permanence of all books is fixed by no effort friendly or hostile, but by their own specific gravity, or the intrinsic… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The constructive intellect [genius] produces thoughts, sentences, poems, plans, designs, systems. It is the generation of the mind, the marriage of thought… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
How can we speak of the action of the mind under any divisions, as of its knowledge, of its ethics, of its… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Luckily for us, now that steam has narrowed the Atlantic to a strait, the nervous, rocky West is intruding a new and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I suppose an entire cabinet of shells would be an expression of the whole human mind; a Flora of the whole globe… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“That which we are, we shall teach, not voluntarily, but involuntarily. Thoughts come into our minds by avenues which we never left… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In sculpture did ever anybody call the Apollo a fancy piece? Or say of the Laocoon how it might be made different?… — 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
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
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
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
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
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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… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share
A child reminds us that playtime is an essential part of our daily routine. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share
No man can be criticised but by a greater than he. Do not, then, read the reviews. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share
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
In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends, but they are imprisoned by an enchanter in these paper and leathern… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share
The compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time. A fever, a mutilation, a cruel disappointment, a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share
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