If I could put my hand on the north star, would it be as beautiful? The sea is lovely, but when we… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
All the tools and engines on earth are only extensions of man's limbs and senses. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Spurious prudence, making the senses final, is the god of sots and cowards, and is the subject of all comedy. It is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The senses collect the surface facts of matter... It was sensation; when memory came, it was experience; when mind acted, it was… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Life is comic or pitiful as soon as the high ends of being fade out of sight, and man becomes near-sighted, and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The human body is a magazine of inventions, the patent office, where are the models from which every hint is taken. All… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Tobacco, coffee, alcohol, hashish, prussic acid, strychnine, are weak dilutions; the surest poison is time. This cup which nature puts to our… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Beauty through my senses stole; I yielded myself to the perfect whole. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Cities give not the human senses room enough. We go out daily and nightly to feed the eyes on the horizon, and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The exercise of all the senses is as intense pleasure, as anyone will find, who recovers the use of one after being… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The senses interfere everywhere, and mix their own structure with all they report of. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The god or hero of the sculptor is always represented in a transition from that which is representable to the senses, to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The refining influence is the study of art, which is the science of beauty; and I find that every man values every… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In my utter impotence to test the authenticity of the report of my senses, to know whether the impressions they make on… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Prudence is the virtue of the senses. It is the science of appearances. It is the outmost action of the inward life. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The imagination and the senses cannot be gratified at the same time. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We must learn the language of facts. The most wonderful inspirations die with their subject, if he has no hand to paint… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A man cannot utter two or three sentences without disclosing to intelligent ears precisely where he stands in life and thought, whether… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
As thinkers, mankind has ever divided into two sects, Materialists and Idealists; the first class founding on experience, the second on consciousness;… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The love of novels is the preference of sentiment to the senses. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I could better eat with one who did not respect the truth or the laws, than with a sloven and unpresentable person.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Moral qualities rule the world, but at short distances the senses are despotic. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The influence of the senses have in men overpowered the thought to the degree that the walls of time and space have… — 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
