The religions of the world are the ejaculations of a few imaginative men. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
But genius is religious. It is a larger imbibing of the common heart. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The progress of religion is steadily to its identity with morals. Strength enters just as much as the moral element prevails. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Philanthropic and religious bodies do not commonly make their executive officers out of saints. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Therefore is nature ever the ally of Religion: lends her all her pomp and riches to the religious sentiment. — 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
In talking with scholars, I observe that they lost on ruder companions those years of boyhood which alone could give imaginative literature… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is a sign of our times, conspicuous to the coarsest observer, that many intelligent and religious persons withdraw themselves from the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Religious literature has eminent examples, and if we run over our private list of poets, critics, philanthropists and philosophers, we shall find… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The moral sense reappears today with the same morning newness that has been from of old the fountain of beauty and strength.… — 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
But the nomads were the terror of all those whom the soil or the advantages of the market had induced to build… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The energetic action of the times develops individualism, and the religious appear isolated. I esteem this a step in the right direction.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Under the dominion of an idea, which possesses the minds of multitudes, as civil freedom, or the religious sentiment, the power ofpersons… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
But, if we explore the literature of Heroism, we shall quickly come to Plutarch, who is its Doctor and historian. To him… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We live in a very low state of the world, and pay unwilling tribute to government founded on force. There is not,… — 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 mystic must be steadily told,-All that you say is just as true without the tedious use of that symbol as with… — 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… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If I made laws for Shakers or a school, I should gazette every Saturday all the words they were wont to use… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The best conversation is rare. Society seems to have agreed to treat fictions as realities, and realities as fictions; and the simple… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A few years ago, the liberal churches complained that the Calvinistic church denied to them the name of Christian. I think the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Each religious sect has its own physiognomy. The Methodists have acquired a face; the Quakers, a face; the nuns, a face. An… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Give the slave the least elevation of religious sentiment, and he is not slave: you are the slave: he not only in… — 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
“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
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
