Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Believe Quotes, Men Quotes

We will walk on our own feet; we will work with our own hands; we will speak our own minds... A nation of men will for the first time exist, because each believes himself inspired by the Divine Soul which also inspires all men.

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How can he [today's writer] be honored, when he does not honor himself; when he loses himself in the crowd; when he is no longer the lawgiver, but the sycophant, ducking to the giddy opinion of a reckless public.

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Liberty is a slow fruit.

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You must let go of a thing for a new one to come to you.

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Practice radical humility." He (or she)who masters the art of humility cannot be humiliated.

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Our poets are men of talents who sing, and not the children of music.

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Life is a search after power.

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He needs no library, for he has not done thinking; no church, for he is himself a prophet; no statute book, for he hath the Lawgiver; no money, for he is value itself; no road, for he is at home where he is.

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God screens us evermore from premature ideas.

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Slavery is an institution for converting men into monkeys.

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The spirit of the world, the great calm presence of the creator, comes not forth to the sorceries of opium or of wine.

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Our culture, therefore, must not omit the arming of the man. Let him hear in season, that he is born into the state of war, and that the commonwealth and his own well-being require that he should not go dancing in the weeds of peace, but warned, self- collected, and neither defying nor dreading the thunder, let him take both reputation and life in his hand, and, with perfect urbanity, dare the gibbet and the mob by the absolute truth of his speech, and the rectitude of his behaviour.

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He who does a good deed is instantly ennobled. He who does a mean deed is by the action itself contracted.

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Every man is a divinity in disguise, a god playing the fool.

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Our friends early appear to us as representatives of certain ideas, which they never pass or exceed. They stand on the brink of the ocean of thought and power, but they never take a single step that would bring them there.

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Must we always talk for victory, and never once for truth, for comfort, and joy?

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Knowledge is the knowing that we cannot know.

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Intellect is void of affection and sees an object as it stands in the light of science, cool and disengaged. The intellect goes out of the individual, floats over its own personality, and regards it as a fact, and not as I and mine.

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General ideas are essences. They are our gods: they round and ennoble the most partial and sordid way of living.

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There are many virtues in books, but the essential value is the adding of knowledge to our stock by the record of new facts, and, better, by the record of intuitions which distribute facts, and are the formulas which supersede all histories.

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