Heroism feels and never reasons, and therefore is always right. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Every genuine work of art has as much reason for being as the earth and the sun. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Trust instinct to the end, even though you can give no reason. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Knowledge is the antidote to fear,- Knowledge, Use and Reason, with its higher aids. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
What is the imagination? Only an arm or weapon of the interior energy; only the precursor of the reason. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I can reason down or deny everything, except this perpetual Belly: feed he must and will, and I cannot make him respectable. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I think no virtue goes with size;The reason of all cowardiceIs, that men are overgrown,And, to be valiant, must come downTo the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Genius has infused itself into nature. It indicates itself by a small excess of good, a small balance in brute facts always… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
...in the wilderness, I find something more dear and connate than in the streets or villages...in the woods we return to reason… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Wise men are not wise at all hours, and will speak five times from their taste or their humor, to once from… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There is one other reason for dressing well, namely that dogs respect it, and will not attack you in good clothes. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
No reason can be asked or given why the soul seeks beauty. Beauty, in its largest and profoundest sense, is one expression… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Everything that is popular, it has been said, deserves the attention of philosophers: and this is for the obvious reason, that although… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
But also the constituency determines the vote of the representative. He is not only representative, but participant. Like can onlybe known by… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Logic is the procession or proportionate unfolding of the intuition; but its virtue is as silent method; the moment it would appear… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Beside all the small reasons we assign, there is a great reason for the existence of every extant fact; a reason which… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Every industrious man, in every lawful calling, is a useful man. And one principal reason why men are so often useless is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There are many faculties in man, each of which takes its turn of activity, and that faculty which is paramount in any… — 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
I am not engaged to Christianity by decent forms, or saving ordinances; it is not usage, it is not what I do… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In actions of enthusiasm, this drawback appears: but in those lower activities, which have no higher aim than to make us more… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In the woods, too, a man casts off his years, as the snake his slough, and at what period soever of life,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The babe in arms is a channel through which the energies we call fate, love, and reason visibly stream. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Though love repine, and reason chafe, There came a voice without reply,- "'Tis man's perdition to be safe, When for the truth… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Dreams have a poetic integrity and truth. This limbo and dust-hole of thought is presided over by a certain reason, too. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In the woods we return to reason and faith. There I feel that nothing can befall me in life~~no disgrace, no calamity… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The reason of idleness and of crime is the deferring of our hopes. Whilst we are waiting, we beguile the time with… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Expediency of literature, reason of literature, lawfulness of writing down a thought, is questioned; much is to say on both sides,and, while… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Proverbs are the literature of reason, or the statements of absolute truth, without qualification. Like the sacred books of each nation, they… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There are geniuses in trade as well as in war, or the state, or letters; and the reason why this or that… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
All our progress is an unfolding, like the vegetable bud. You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge, as… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self control is the rule. Anger is an uncontrollable feeling that betrays what you… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A man is reputed to have thought and eloquence; he cannot, for all that, say a word to his cousin or his… — 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
