Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson

…as there is no screen or ceiling between our heads and the infinite heavens, so is there no bar or wall in the soul where man, the effect, ceases, and God, the cause, begins. The walls are taken away. We lie open on one side to the deeps of spiritual nature, to the attributes of God. Justice we see and know, Love, Freedom, Power. These natures no man ever got above, but they tower over us, and most in the moment when our interests tempt us to wound them.

Lying

Spiritual

Wall

…in the wilderness, I find something more dear and connate than in the streets or villages…in the woods we return to reason and faith.

Return

Village

Woods

…man is an analogist, and studies relations in all objects. He is placed in the center of beings, and a ray of relation passes from every other being to him. And neither can man be understood without these objects, nor these objects without man.

Men

Rays

Unity

…most men have bound their eyes with one or another handkerchief, and attached themselves to some one of these communities of opinion. This conformity makes them not false in a few particulars, authors of a few lies, but false in all particulars. Their every truth is not quite true. Their two is not the real two, their four not the real four; so that every word they say chagrins us, and we know not where to begin to set them right.

Lying

Real

Truth

…What torments of pain have you endured that haven’t as yet arrived? and may never!

Anticipation

May

Pain

‘Tis a good rule in every journey to provide some piece of liberal study to rescue the hours which bad weather, bad company, and taverns steal from the best economist.

Journey

Taverns

Weather

‘Tis a short sight to limit our faith in laws to those of gravity, of chemistry, of botany, and so forth. Those laws do not stop where our eyes lose them, but push the same geometry and chemistry up into the invisible plane of social and rational life, so that, look where we will, in a boy’s game, or in the strifes of races, a perfect reaction, a perpetual judgment keeps watch and ward.

Boys

Eye

Science

‘Tis a superstition to insist on a special diet. All is made at last of the same chemical atoms.

Funny

Humor

Special

‘Well,’ said Red Jacket [to someone complaining that he had not enough time], ‘I suppose you have all there is.’

Complaining

Red

Time

“Do not call yourself an “artist-photographer” and make “artist-painters” and “artist-sculptors” laugh; call yourself a photographer and wait for artists to call you brother.”

Artist

Brother

Photography

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Able

Absence

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Acceptance

Accepting

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Accuracy

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Acorns

Acquaintance

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Action

Active

Activity

Actors

Adam

Add

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Affection

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Agreement

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Aim

Air

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Alive

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Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson

…in the wilderness, I find something more dear and connate than in the streets or villages…in the woods we return to reason and faith.

…man is an analogist, and studies relations in all objects. He is placed in the center of beings, and a ray of relation passes from every other being to him. And neither can man be understood without these objects, nor these objects without man.

…What torments of pain have you endured that haven’t as yet arrived? and may never!

‘Tis a good rule in every journey to provide some piece of liberal study to rescue the hours which bad weather, bad company, and taverns steal from the best economist.

‘Tis a superstition to insist on a special diet. All is made at last of the same chemical atoms.

‘Well,’ said Red Jacket [to someone complaining that he had not enough time], ‘I suppose you have all there is.’

“Do not call yourself an “artist-photographer” and make “artist-painters” and “artist-sculptors” laugh; call yourself a photographer and wait for artists to call you brother.”

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