Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Poetry Quotes, Mind Quotes

Good poetry could not have been otherwise written than it is. The first time you hear it, it sounds rather as if copied out of some invisible tablet in the Eternal mind than as if arbitrarily composed by the poet.

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The mind commands the body, and it obeys forthwith; the mind commands itself, and is resisted. The mind commands the hand to be moved, and such readiness is there that the command is scarce to be distinguished from the obedience. Yet the mind is mind, and the hand is body. The mind commands the mind to will, and yet, though it be itself, it obeyeth not. Whence this monstrous thing? and why is it?

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Anger is the ultimate destroyer of your own peace of mind

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The mind that opens to a new idea never returns to its original size

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Man, like the universe, is a machine. Nothing enters our minds or determines our actions which is not directly or indirectly a response to stimuli beating upon our sense organs from without.

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A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations is really an uncreative mind.

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Paradise is within you, in your state of no-mind. And hell is also within you, in your very mind.

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When Bishop Berkeley said "there was no matter." And proved it--'t was no matter what he said.

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Not all of life's roads are set fast, for a man may do this or a man may do that and not even the gods know the mind of a man.

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Wit and puns aren't just décor in the mind; they're essential signs that the mind knows it's on, recognizes its own software, can spot the bugs in its own program.

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Happiness is determined more by one's state of mind than by external events.

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The need for a rational consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds.

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The turning of the charkha in a lifeless way will be like the turning of the beads of the rosary with a wandering mind turned away from God.

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Now I am depressed myself,' I said. 'That's why I never think about these things. I never think and yet when I begin to talk I say the things I have found out in my mind without thinking.

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And I will capture your minds with sweet novelty. [Lat., Dulcique animos novitate tenebo.]

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If the mind, that rules the body, ever so far forgets itself as to trample on its slave, the slave is never generous enough to forgive the injury, but will rise and smite the oppressor.

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What matters deafness of the ear, when the mind hears? The one true deafness, the incurable deafness, is that of the mind.

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Not only a truer knowledge, but a greater power comes to one in the quietude and silence of a mind that, instead of bubbling on the surface, can go to its own depths and listen.

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As long as the mind clings to belief, it is held in a prison.

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When you try to sow the seeds of doubt in people`s minds about the legitimacy of our election, that undermines democracy. Then you`re doing the work of our adversaries for them.

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