No man can quite emancipate himself from his age and country, or produce a model in which the education, the religion, the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
As men's prayers are a disease of the will, so are their creeds a disease of the intellect. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
When a man speaks the truth in the spirit of truth, his eye is as clear as the heavens. When he has… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Religionists are clinging to little, positive, verbal, formal versions of the moral law... while the laws of the Law, the great circling… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If the vast and the spiritual are omitted, so are the practical and the moral. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
But speak the truth, and all nature and all spirits help you with unexpected furtherance. Speak the truth, and all things alive… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Man is timid and apologetic; he is no longer upright; he dares not say "I think," "I am," but quotes some saint… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Whatever we think and say is wonderfully better for our spirits and trust in another mouth. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The spirit of the world, the great calm presence of the creator, comes not forth to the sorceries of opium or of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I see that sensible men and conscientious men all over the world were of one religion of well-doing and daring. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The use of literature is to afford us a platform whence we may command a view of our present life, a purchase… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“All things are moral; and in their boundless changes have an unceasing reference to spiritual nature. Therefore is nature glorious with form,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I look on trade and every mechanical craft as education also. But let me discriminate what is precious herein. There is in… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The bulk of mankind believe in two gods. They are under one dominion here in the house, as friend and parent, in… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
But your isolation must not be mechanical, but spiritual, that is, must be elevation. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A fact is the end or last issue of spirit. The visible creation is the terminus or the circumference of the invisible… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
When believers and unbelievers live in the same manner - I distrust the religion. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The world-spirit is a good swimmer, and storms and waves can not drown him. He snaps his fingers at laws; and so,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If thought makes free, so does the moral sentiment. The mixtures of spiritual chemistry refuse to be analyzed. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
When the spirit is not master of the world, then it is its dupe. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
For a great nature, it is a happiness to escape a religious training; religion of character is so apt to be invaded. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Let me admonish you, first of all, to go alone; to refuse the good models, even those most sacred in the imagination… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The religion of one age is the literary entertainment of the next. — 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
