Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Science Quotes, Self Quotes

The universe is the externisation of the soul. Wherever the life is, that bursts into appearance around it. Our science is sensual, and therefore superficial. The earth, and the heavenly bodies, physics, and chemistry, we sensually treat, as if they were self-existent; but these are the retinue of that Being we have.

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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

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What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think.

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Wherever there is power there is age.

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Power and speed be hands and feet.

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The growth of the intellect is spontaneous in every expansion. The mind that grows could not predict the times, the means, the mode of that spontaneity. God enters by a private door into every individual.

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The population of the world is a conditional population; these are not the best, but the best that could live in the existing state of soils, gases, animals, and morals: the best that could yet live; there shall be a better, please God.

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Every word which is used to express a moral or intellectual fact, if traced to its root, is found to be borrowed from some material appearance.

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A good indignation makes an excellent speech.

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But in every constitution some large degree of animal vigor is necessary as material foundation for the higher qualities of the art.

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Our reliance on the physician is a kind of despair of ourselves.

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Every individual strives to grow and exclude, to the extremities of the universe, and to impose the law of its being on every other creature.

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Nothing will supply the want of sunshine to peaches, and, to make knowledge valuable, you must have the cheerfulness of wisdom. Whenever you are sincerely pleased you are nourished. The joy of the spirit indicates its strength. All healthy, things are sweet-tempered. Genius works in sport, and goodness smiles to the last.

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The solid, solid universe Is pervious to Love; With bandaged eyes he never errs, Around, below, above. His blinding light He flingeth white On God's and Satan's brood, And reconciles By mystic wiles The evil and the good.

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The soul answers never by words, but by the thing itself that is inquired after.

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The secrets of life are not shown except to sympathy and likeness.

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Poets should be law-givers; that is, the boldest lyric inspiration should not chide and insult, but should announce and lead the civil code, and the day's work.

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Our age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories and criticism.

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I read your piece on Plato. Holmes, when you strike at a king, you must kill him.

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A cultivated man, wise to know and bold to perform, is the end to which nature works.

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