Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Philosophy Quotes, Blessed Quotes

The poor and the low have their way of expressing the last facts of philosophy as well as you. "Blessed be nothing," and "The worse things are, the better they are," are proverbs which express the transcendentalism of common life.

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The man (or woman) who can make hard things easy is the educator.

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Nothing is secure but life, transition, the energizing spirit.

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The sower may mistake and sow his peas crookedly; the peas make no mistake, but come up and show his line.

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Government exists to defend the weak and the poor and the injured party; the rich and the strong can better take care of themselves.

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Whom God has put asunder, why should man put together?

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Looking at God instantly reduces our disposition to dissent from our brother.

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We live in a new and exceptional age. America is another word for Opportunity. Our whole history appears like a last effort of the Divine Providence in behalf of the human race; and a literal, slavish following of precedents, as by a justice of the peace, is not for those who at this hour lead the AMERICAN CIVILIZATION.

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A man finds room in the few square inches of the face for the traits of all his ancestors; for the expression of all his history, and his wants.

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In the Fiji islands, it appears, cannibalism is now familiar. They eat thier own wives and children. We only devour widows' houses, and great merchants outwit and absorb the substance of small ones, and every man feeds on his neighbor's labor if he can. It is a milder form of cannibalism.

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Whenever a mind is simple and receives an old wisdom, old things pass away,--means, teachers, texts, temples fall; it lives now, and absorbs past and future into present hour. All things are made sacred by relation to it,--one as much as another.

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Politics is a deleterious profession, like some poisonous handicrafts.

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The instinct of the people is right.

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Inaction is cowardice, but there can be no scholar without the heroic mind.

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Wherever work is done, victory is attained.

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Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins. We parry and fend the approach of our fellow-man by compliments, by gossip, by amusements, by affairs. We cover up our thought from him under a hundred folds.

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Go, speed the stars of Thought On to their shining goals; - The sower scatters broad his seed, The wheat thou strew'st be souls.

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Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly, until he knows that every day is Doomsday.

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Yet these uneasy pleasures and fine pains are for curiosity, and not for life.

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Miracle comes to the miraculous, not to the arithmetician.

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