The two terrors that discourage creativity and creative living are fear of public opinion and undue reverence for one's own consistency. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The highest compact we can make with our fellow is - "Let there be truth between us two forevermore." — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The worst feature of this double consciousness is, that the two lives, of the understanding and of the soul, which we lead,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Finish each day before you begin the next, and interpose a solid wall of sleep between the two. This you cannot do… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
By going one step further back in thought, discordant opinions are reconciled by being seen to be two extremes of one principle,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Our debt to tradition through reading and conversation is so massive, our protest so rare and insignificant-and this commonly on the ground… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
All minds quote. Old and new make the warp and woof of every moment. There is no thread that is not a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Great conversation ... requires an absolute running of two souls into one. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Two sorts of writers possess genius: those who think, and those who cause others to think. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We are amphibious creatures, weaponed for two elements, having two sets of faculties, the particular and the catholic. — 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
Dreams and beasts are two keys by which we find out the keys of our own nature. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is the dissenter, the theorist, the aspirant, who is quitting this ancient domain to embark on seas of adventure, who engages… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The bulk of mankind believe in two gods. They are under one dominion here in the house, as friend and parent, in… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
And what fastens attention, in the intercourse of life, like any passage betraying affection between two parties? Perhaps we never saw them… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A man must be in sympathy with society around him, or else, not wish to be in sympathy with it. If neither… — 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
No one has a prosperity so high and firm that two or three words can't dishearten it. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
All forms of government symbolize an immortal government, common to all dynasties and independent of numbers, perfect where two men exist, perfect… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The Americans have many virtues, but they have not Faith and Hope. I know no two words whose meaning is more lost… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There are two laws discreteNot reconciled,Law for man, and law for thing. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Delicious is a just and firm encounter of two in a thought, in a feeling. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In all conversation between two persons, tacit reference is made, as to a third party, to a common nature. That third party… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
An English family consists of a few persons, who, from youth to age, are found revolving within a few feet of each… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Every fact is related on one side to sensation, and, on the other, to morals. The game of thought is, on the… — 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
