Would be Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“What would be the use of immortality to a person who cannot use well half an hour?”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Surely nobody would be a charlatan, who could afford to be sincere.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

He who would be a man must therefore be a non-conformist.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A right rule for a club would be,-Admit no man whose presence excludes any one topic.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

He who would be a great soul in the future, must be a great soul now.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Let the soul be assured that somewhere in the universe it should rejoin its friend, and it would be content and cheerful…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

But if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars. The rays that come from those heavenly worlds, will…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I will not live out of me I will not see with others' eyes My good is good, my evil ill I…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Church seems to totter to its fall, almost all life extinct. On this occasion, any complaisance would be criminal which told…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Good as is discourse, silence is better, and shames it. The length of the discourse indicates the distance of thought betwixt the…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A right rule for a club would be, Admit no man whose presence excludes any one topic. It requires people who are…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Whoso would be a man, must be a nonconformist. He who would gather immortal palms must not be hindered by the name…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Well, the world has a million writers. One would think, then, that good thought would be as familiar as air and water,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart, is true for all men…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The vocabulary of an omniscient man would embrace words and images excluded from polite conversation. What would be base, or even obscene,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as from society. I am not solitary whilst…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

We have feudal governments in a commercial age. It would be but an easy extension of our commercial system, to pay a…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

You think that your silence on certain topics, perhaps in the face of injustice, or unkindness, or mean-spiritedness, causes others to reserve…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The moment the doctrine of the immortality is separately taught, man is already fallen. In the flowing of love, in the adoration…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

This whole business of Trade gives me to pause and think, as it constitutes false relations between men; inasmuch as I am…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

We must trust infinitely to the beneficent necessity which shines through all laws. Human nature expresses itself in them as characteristically as…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Higher than the question of our duration is the question of our deserving. Immortality will come to such as are fit for…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Wealth and poverty are seen for what they are. It begins to be seen that the poor are only they who feel…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I suppose an entire cabinet of shells would be an expression of the whole human mind; a Flora of the whole globe…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

If men would avoid that general language and general manner in which they strive to hide all that is peculiar, and would…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson