It is a mischievous notion that we are come late into nature; that the world was finished a long time ago. As… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The two parties which divide the State, the party of Conservatism and that of Innovation are very old, and have disputed the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If two or three persons should come with a high spiritual aim and with great powers, the world would fall into their… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Society, to be sure, does not like this very well; it saith, Whoso goes to walk alone, accuses the whole world; he… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Knowledge, Virtue, Power are the victories of man over his necessities, his march to the dominion of the world. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Is it not better to intimate our astonishment as we pass through this world if it be only for a moment ere… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The unique impression of Jesus upon mankind - whose name is not so much written as ploughed into the history of the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Numbers serve to discipline rhetoric. Without them it is too easy to follow flights of fancy, to ignore the world as it… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
But, if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars. The rays that come from these heavenly worlds, will… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch... — 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
In like manner the effect of every action is measured by the depth of the sentiment from which it proceeds. The great… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Man is made of the same atoms the world is, he shares the same impressions, predispositions, and destiny. When his mind is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Great genial power, one would almost say, consists in not being original at all; in being altogether receptive; in letting the world… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We live in a very low state of the world, and pay unwilling tribute to government founded on force. There is not,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The moral sense is always supported by the permanent interest of the parties. Else, I know not how, in our world, any… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
At times the whole world seems to be in conspiracy to importune you with emphatic trifles. Friend, client, child, sickness, fear, want,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Every great and commanding movement in the annals of the world is due to the triumph of enthusiasm. Nothing great was ever… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A breath of will blows eternally through the universe of souls in the direction of Right and Necessity. It is the air… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The soul comes from without into the human body, as into a temporary abode, and it goes out of it anew it… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Dream delivers us to dream, and there is no end to illusion. Life is like a train of moods like a string… — 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
