Ralph Waldo Emerson And Quotations

Some books leave us free and some books make us free.

Life consists in what a person is thinking of all day.

If a man sits down to think, he is immediately asked if has a headache.

What is the hardest thing in the world? To think.

A man's what he thinks about all day long

A sect or party is an incognito devised to save man from the vexation of thinking.

Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone.

Concentration is the secret of strength in politics, in war, in trade, in short in all management of human affairs.

Go forth into the busy world and love it. Interest yourself in its life, mingle kindly with its joys and sorrows.

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

Everything is made of one hidden stuff.

Astronomy to the selfish becomes astrology.

Let him be great, and love shall follow him.

Don't set out to teach theism from your natural history... You spoil both.

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions.

The days come and go but they say nothing, and if we do not use the gifts they bring, they carry them as silently away.

Love what is simple and beautiful. These are the essentials.

The wings of Time are black and white, Pied with morning and with night.

Human character evermore publishes itself. The most fugitive deed and word, the intimated purpose, express character.

Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions.

Nature may be as selfishly studied as trade. Astronomy to the selfish becomes astrology; psychology, mesmerism (with intent to show where aour spoons are gone); and anatomy and physiology become phrenology and palmistry.

Let us be poised, wise and our own today.

Skepticism is unbelief in cause and effect.

The only prudence in life is concentration.

Let him be great, and love shall follow him. Nothing is more deeply punished than the neglect of the affinities by which alone society should be formed, and the insane levity of choosing associates by others eyes.

Polarity, or action and reaction, we meet in every part of nature; in darkness and light; in heat and cold; in the ebb and flow of water; in male and female; in the equation of quantity and quality; in the fluids of the animal body; in the systole an

Old and new make the warp and woof of every moment. There is no thread that is not a twist of these two strands.

Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this.