Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Knowledge Quotes, Men Quotes

If we will not interfere with our thought, but will act entirely, or see how the thing stands in God, we know the particular thing, and every thing, and every man.

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The difference between Talent and Genius is that Talent says things which he has never heard but once, and Genius things which he has never heard.

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As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.

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Teach that God is, not was; that He speaketh, not spake.

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My good hoe as it bites the ground revenges my wrongs, and I have less lust to bite my enemies. In the smoothing the rough hillocks, I smooth my temper.

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The state of society is one in which the members have suffered amputation from the trunk, and strut about so many walking monsters,—a good finger, a neck, a stomach, an elbow, but never a man.

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Every man is a new method.

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There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrate to some stroke of the imagination.

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Culture is the suggestion, from certain best thoughts, that a man has a range of affinities through which he can modulate the violence of any master-tones that have a droning preponderance in his scale, and succor him against himself. Culture redresses this imbalance, puts him among equals and superiors, revives the delicious sense of sympathy, and warns him of the dangers of solitude and repulsion.

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Every promise of the soul has innumerable fulfillments; each of its joys ripens into a new want.

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Everything is prospective, and man is to live hereafter. That the world is for his education is the only sane solution of the enigma.

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Open the doors of opportunity to talent and virtue and they will do themselves justice, and property will not be in bad hands.

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I find that the Americans have no passions, they have appetites.

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It is an esoteric doctrine of society, that a little wickedness is good to make muscle; as if conscience were not good for hands and legs.

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It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the world can pay.

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Do not spill thy soul in running hither and yon, grieving over the mistakes and the vices of others. The one person whom it is most necessary to reform is yourself.

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Invention breeds invention.

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The counting-room maxims liberally expounded are laws of the Universe. The merchant's economy is a coarse symbol of the soul's economy. It is, to spend for power, and not for pleasure.

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There are eyes, to be sure, that give no more admission into the man than blueberries.

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Pride ruined the angels.

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