Beauty is the virtue of the body as virtue is the beauty of the soul — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In the sublimest flights of the soul, rectitude is never surmounted, love is never outgrown. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The soul answers never by words, but by the thing itself that is inquired after. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The problem of restoring to the world original and eternal beauty is solved by redemption of the soul. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of our own mind.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
He who would be a great soul in the future, must be a great soul now. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment. The one thing in the world, of value,… — 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
Not always can flowers, pearls, poetry, protestations, nor even home in another heart, content the awful soul that dwells in clay. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Great believers are always reckoned infidels, impracticable, fantastic, atheistic, and really men of no account. The spiritualist finds himself driven to express… — 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
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 Copy Share Image
Excite the soul, and the weather and the town and your condition in the world all disappear; the world itself loses its… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The soul is not born; it does not die; it was not produced from anyoneÂ… Unborn, eternal, it is not slain, though… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“The reliance on authority measures the decline of religion, the withdrawal of the soul. The position men have given to Jesus, now… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“What is the soul? Commonly, it’s defined as an immortal spirit placed inside each person’s body by God. But Emerson had a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Every individual nature has its own beauty. One is struck in every company, at every fireside, with the riches of nature, when… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“The philosophy of six thousand years has not searched the chambers and magazines of the soul. In its experiments there has always… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I read the other day some verses written by an eminent painter which were original and not conventional. The soul always hears… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
No reason can be asked or given why the soul seeks beauty. Beauty, in its largest and profoundest sense, is one expression… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
What we commonly call man, the eating, drinking, planting, counting man, does not, as we know him, represent himself, but misrepresents himself.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Truly speaking, it is not instruction, but provocation, that I can receive from another soul. What he announces, I must find true… — 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
In my dealing with my child, my Latin and Greek, my accomplishments and my money stead me nothing; but as much soul… — 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
We cannot describe the natural history of the soul, but we know that it is divine. All things are known to the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
For every seeing soul, there are two absorbing facts - I, and the abyss. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
What your heart thinks is great, is great. The soul's emphasis is always right. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Every promise of the soul has innumerable fulfillments; each of its joys ripens into a new want. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
To aim to convert a man by miracles is a profanation of the soul. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There is a remedy for every wrong and a satisfaction for every soul. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Within us is the soul of the whole, the wise silence, the universal beauty, the eternal One. — 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
