“Time and space are but physiological colors which the eye makes, but the soul is light; where it is, is day; where… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“the sense of being which in calm hours arises, we know not how, in the soul, is not diverse from things, from… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
As we are, so we associate. The good, by affinity, seek the good; the vile, by affinity, the vile. Thus of their… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The House ...She lays her beams in music, In music every ore, To the candence of the whirling world Which dances round… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
In good company, the individuals merge their egotism into a social soul exactly co-extensive with the several consciousnesses there present. — 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
“The faith that stands on authority is not faith. The reliance on authority measures the decline of religion, the withdrawal of the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
All goes to show that the soul in man is not an organ, but animates and exercises all the organs; is not… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The reliance on authority measures the decline of religion, the withdrawal of the soul. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The relations of the soul to the divine spirit are so pure, that it is profane to seek to interpose helps. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Philosophically considered, the universe is composed of Nature and the Soul. Strictly speaking, therefore, all that is separate from us, all which… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We ask for long life, but 'tis deep life, or noble moments that signify. Let the measure of time be spiritual, not… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“The world thus exists to the soul to satisfy the desire of beauty. This” — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood; and if there is any truth in him, if he rests at last… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as strong to think. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“The influence of the senses has, in most men, overpowered the mind to the degree that the walls of time and space… — ralph waldo emerson Copy Share Image
It is one light which beams out of a thousand stars. It is one soul which animates all men. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“There may be two or three or four steps, according to the genius of each, but for every seeing soul there are… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Thus to him, to this school-boy under the bending dome of day, is suggested, that he and it proceed from one root;… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of our own mind.” — 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
