Spirituality Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is more in every person's soul than we think.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

All things are known to the soul.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The eyes indicate the antiquity of the soul.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is one soul which animates all men.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every man contemplates an angel in his future self.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The soul knows no persons.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The soul circumscribes all things.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Wait, and thy soul shall speak.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The world thus exists to the soul to satisfy the desire of beauty. This”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The soul refuses limits and always affirms an optimism, never a pessimism.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The soul knows only the soul; the web of events is the flowing robe in which she is clothed.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is one light which beams out of a thousand stars. It is one soul which animates all men.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Philosophically considered, the universe is composed of Nature and the Soul.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The soul of God is poured into the world through the thoughts of men.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

All things are moral. That soul, which within us is a sentiment, outside of us is a law. We feel its inspiration;…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you believe in the soul, do not clutch at sensual sweetness before it is ripe on the slow tree of cause…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

To help the young soul, to add energy, inspire hope, and blow the coals into a useful flame; to redeem defeat by…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Not in nature but in man is all the beauty and worth he sees. The world is very empty, and is indebted…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Is not prayer a study of truth, a sally of the soul into the unfound infinite? No man ever prayed heartily without…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I am present at the sowing of the seed of the world. With a geometry of sunbeams, the soul lays the foundations…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

We see the world piece by piece, as the sun, the moon, the animal, the tree; but the whole, of which these…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The soul contains the event that shall befall it, for the event is only the actualization of its thoughts; and what we…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

So in accepting the leading of the sentiments, it is not what we believe concerning the immortality of the soul, or the…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Belief and love,--a believing love will relieve us of a vast load of care. O my brothers, God exists. There is a…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

In excited conversation we have glimpses of the universe, hints of power native to the soul, far-darting lights and shadows of an…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The soul is the perceiver and revealer of truth. We know truth when we see it, let skeptic and scoffer say what…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

In our definitions, we grope after the spiritual by describing it as invisible. The true meaning of spiritual is real; that law…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Power is, in nature, the essential measure of right. Nature suffers nothing to remain in her kingdoms which cannot help itself. The…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The world -- this shadow of the soul, or other me, lies wide around. Its attractions are the keys which unlock my…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

When he has seen, that it is not his, nor any man's, but it is the soul which made the world, and…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Solitude, the safeguard of mediocrity, is to genius the stern friend, the cold, obscure shelter where moult the wings which will bear…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Existentialism “every appearance in nature corresponds to some state of the mind,” we have entered the familiar Wordsworthian Romantic territory in which…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

For, the sense of being which in calm hours rises, we know not how, in the soul, is not diverse from things,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

We live in succession, in division, in parts, in particles. Meantime within man is the soul of the whole; the wise silence;…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is, in both cases, that a spiritual life has been imparted to nature; that the solid seeming block of matter has…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

It must be that when God speaketh, he should communicate, not one thing, but all things; should fill the world with his…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The man not only thinks, but speaks and acts. Every thought that arises in the mind, in its rising aims to pass…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

For all our penny-wisdom, for all our soul-destroying slavery to habit, it is not to be doubted that all men have sublime…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson