Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Eye Quotes, Sight Quotes

The eye obeys exactly the action of the mind.

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Man carries the world in his head, the whole astronomy and chemistry suspended in a thought. Because the history of nature is charactered in his brain, therefore he is the prophet and discoverer of her secrets. Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.

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Our best thoughts come from others.

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Nature is made to conspire with spirit to emancipate us.

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Nothing can be more delicate without being fantastical, nothing more firm and based in nature and sentiment, than the courtship and mutual carriage of the sexes.

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We shun the rugged battle of fate where strength is born.

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Commerce is a game of skill which everyone cannot play and few can play well.

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Nature is too thin a screen; the glory of the omnipresent God bursts through everywhere

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I shun father and mother and wife and brother, when my genius calls me.

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We fly to beauty as an asylum from the terrors of finite nature.

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Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting.

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Motion or change, and identity or rest, are the first and second secrets of nature: Motion and Rest. The whole code of her laws may be written on the thumbnail, or the signet of a ring.

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Health, south wind, books, old trees, a boat, a friend.

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Nature never rhymes her children, nor makes two men alike. When we see a great man, we fancy a resemblance to some historical person, and predict the sequel of his character and fortune, a result which he is sure to disappoint. None will ever solve the problem of his character according to our prejudice, but only in his high unprecedented way.

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But I cannot recite, even thus rudely, laws of the intellect, without remembering that lofty and sequestered class of men who have been its prophets and oracles, the high-priesthood of the pure reason, the Trismegisti, the expounders of the principles of thought from age to age.

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Each particle is a microcosm, and faithfully renders the likeness of the world.

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Do not believe that possibly you can escape the reward of your action.

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If the East loves infinity, the West delights in boundaries.

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In self-trust all the virtues are comprehended.

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Meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it their duty to accept the views which Cicero, which Locke, which Bacon, have given, forgetful that Cicero, Locke, and Bacon were only young men in libraries, when they wrote these books.

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