Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Respect Quotes, Drinking Quotes

What we commonly call man, the eating, drinking, planting, counting man, does not, as we know him, represent himself, but misrepresents himself. Him we do not respect, but the soul, whose organ he is, would he let it appear through his action, would make our knees bend.

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All history is a record of the power of minorities, and of minorities of one.

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He thought it happier to be dead, To die for Beauty, than live for bread

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We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.

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There is a remedy for every wrong and a satisfaction for every soul.

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Extremes meet, and there is no better example than the naughtiness of humility.

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

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Never utter the truism but live it among men.

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What is the imagination? Only an arm or weapon of the interior energy; only the precursor of the reason.

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Noblesse oblige; or, superior advantages bind you to larger generosity.

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The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue; and no genius can long or often utter anything which is not invited and gladly entertained by men around him.

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Solitude is naught and society is naught. Alternate them and the good of each is seen.

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We dare not trust our wit for making our house pleasant to our friend, so we buy ice cream.

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The difference between the actual and the ideal force of man is happily figured in by the schoolmen, in saying, that the knowledgeof man is an evening knowledge, vespertina cognitio, but that of God is a morning knowledge, matutina cognitio.

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A life in harmony with nature, the love of truth and virtue, will purge the eyes to understanding her text.

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We learn geology the morning after the earthquake, on ghastly diagrams of cloven mountains, upheaved plains, and the dry bed of the sea.

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A philosopher must be more than a philosopher.

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And what fastens attention, in the intercourse of life, like any passage betraying affection between two parties? Perhaps we never saw them before, and never shall meet them again. But we see them exchange a glance, or betray a deep emotion, and we are no longer strangers. We understand them, and take the warmest interest in the development of the romance. All mankind love a lover.

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All vigor is contagious.

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The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.

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