Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Art Quotes, Book Quotes

The book, the college, the school of art, the institution of any kind, stop with some past utterance of genius. . . . They look backward and not forward. But genius looks forward: the eyes of man are set in his forehead, not in his hindhead: man hopes: genius creates. Whatever talents may be, if the man create not, the pure efflux of the Deity is not his; - cinders and smoke there may be, but not yet flame.

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Men are what their mothers made them.

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Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins

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But there are higher secrets of culture, which are not for the apprentices, but for proficients. These are lessons only for the brave. We must know our friends under ugly masks. The calamities are our friends.

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It is the ignorant and childish part of mankind that is the fighting part. Idle and vacant minds want excitement

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The whole constitution of property on its present tenures, is injurious, and its influence on persons deteriorating and degrading.

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Men of God have always, from time to time, walked among men, and made their commission felt in the heart and soul of the commonest hearer.

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Is the acorn better than the oak which is its fullness and completion?

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He is the rich man in whom the people are rich, and he is the poor man in whom the people are poor; and how to give access to themasterpieces of art and nature, is the problem of civilization.

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Say, what other metre is it Than the meeting of the eyes? Nature poureth into nature Through the channels of that feature Riding on the ray of sight, Fleeter far than whirlwinds go, Or for service, or delight, Hearts to hearts their meaning show.

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The scholar may lose himself in schools, in words, and become a pedant; but when he comprehends his duties, he above all men is arealist, and converses with things.

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Two touch the string, The harp is dumb.

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Children and savages use only nouns or names of things, which they convert into verbs, and apply to analogous mental acts.

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America is not civil, whilst Africa is barbarous.

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

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Let us make education brave and preventive. Politics is an afterwork, a poor patching. We are always a little late... We shall one day learn to supercede politics by education... We must begin higher up, namely in Education.

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It is only when mind and character slumber that the dress can be seen. If the intellect were always awake, and every noble sentiment, the man might go in huckaback or mats, and his dress would be admired and imitated.

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The world is filled with the proverbs and acts and winkings of a base prudence, which is a devotion to matter, as if we possessedno other faculties than the palate, the nose, the touch, the eye and ear; a prudence which adores the Rule of Three, which never subscribes, which never gives, which seldom lends, and asks but one question of any project,--Will it bake bread?

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

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You cannot institute, without peril of charlatanism.

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