Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Insight Quotes

Deep insight will always, like Nature, ultimate its thought in a thing.

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Proportion is almost impossible to human beings. There is no one who does not exaggerate.

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Do not follow where the path may lead.

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What is addressed to us for contemplation does not threaten us, but makes us intellectual beings.

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As to methods, there may be a million and then some, but principles are few. The man who grasps principles can successfully select his own methods.

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Higher than the question of our duration is the question of our deserving. Immortality will come to such as are fit for it, and he would be a great soul in future must be a great soul now.

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Our eyes are holden that we cannot see things that stare us in the face, until the hour arrives when the mind is ripened; then we behold them, and the time when we saw them not is like a dream.

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Are you not scared by seeing that the gypsies are more attractive to us than the apostles?

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The restraining grace of common sense is the mark of all valid minds.

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I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth. If two or three persons should come with a high spiritual aim and with great powers, the world would fall into their hands like a ripe peach.

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The pulpit and the press have many commonplaces denouncing the thirst for wealth, but if men should take these moralists at their word, and leave off aiming to be rich, the moralists would rush to rekindle at all hazards this love of power in the people, lest civilization should be undone.

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The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.

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The mystic must be steadily told,-All that you say is just as true without the tedious use of that symbol as with it. Let us have a little algebra, instead of this trite rhetoric,-universal signs, instead of these village symbols,-and we shall both be gainers. The history of hierarchies seems to show that all religious error consisted in making the symbol too stark and solid, and was at last nothing but an excess of the organ of language.

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In analysing history do not be too profound, for often the causes are quite superficial.

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Some people will tell you there is a great deal of poetry and fine sentiment in a chest of tea.

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The first steps in Agriculture, Astronomy, Zoology, (those first steps which the farmer, the hunter, and the sailor take,) teach that nature's dice are always loaded; that in her heaps and rubbish are concealed sure and useful results.

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One single idea may have greater weight than all the men, animals, and machines for a century.

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Nature abhors the old.

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Line in Nature is not found; Unit and Universe are round.

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What strength belongs to every plant and animal in nature. The tree or the brook has no duplicity, no pretentiousness, no show. It is, with all its might and main, what it is, and makes one and the same impression and effect at all times. All the thoughts of a turtle are turtle's, and of a rabbit, rabbit's. But a man is broken and dissipated by the giddiness of his will; he does not throw himself into his judgments; his genius leads him one way but 't is likely his trade or politics in quite another.

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