Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Wise Quotes, Spirit Quotes

A wise writer will feel that the ends of study and composition are best answered by announcing undiscovered regions of thought, and so communicating, through hope, new activity to the torpid spirit.

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Is not prayer also a study of truth,--a sally of the soul into the unfound infinite? No man ever prayed heartily, without learningsomething. But when a faithful thinker, resolute to detach every object from personal relations, and see it in the light of thought, shall, at the same time, kindle science with the fire of the holiest affections, then will God go forth anew into creation.

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Every natural power exhilarates; a true talent delights the possessor first.

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It's a luxury to be understood.

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Why should we assume the faults of our friend, or wife, or father, or child, because they sit around our hearth, or are said to have the same blood?

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If you have something to say, you will be given the power to say it.

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A man's fortunes are the fruit of his character. A man's friends are his magnetisms.

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God may forgive sins, he said, but awkwardness has no forgiveness in heaven or earth.

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In Haydn's oratorios, the notes present to the imagination not only motions, as, of the snake, the stag, and the elephant, but colors also; as the green grass.

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It is the eye which makes the horizon.

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Underneath the inharmonious and trivial particulars, is a musical perfection, the Ideal journeying always with us, the heaven without rent or seam.

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A man must keep an eye on his servants, if he would not have them rule him.

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Polarity, or action and reaction, we meet in every part of nature; in darkness and light; in heat and cold; in the ebb and flow of water; in male and female; in the equation of quantity and quality; in the fluids of the animal body; in the systole an

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The Oversoul is before Time, and Time, Father of all else, is one of his children.

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The clergyman who lives in the city may have piety, but he must have taste.

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The writer, like a priest, must be exempted from secular labor. His work needs a frolic health; he must be at the top of his condition.

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Black men built the railroads, not blue eyes.

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The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors, because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind.

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Politics is a deleterious profession, like some poisonous handicrafts.

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The crime which bankrupts men and nations is that of turning aside from one's main purpose to serve a job here and there.

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