Ralph Waldo Emerson Is Quotations

All life is a nap. The more naps you take the better.

Art is the path of the creator to his work.

He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser.

Infancy is the perpetual Messiah, which comes into the arms of fallen men, and pleads with them to return to paradise.

We live amid surfaces, and the true art of life is to skate well on them

The greatest homage to truth is to use it.

All life is an experiment.

Love is the essence of God....

Love is like wildflowers; It's often found in the most unlikely places.

My life is not an apology, but a life. It is for itself and not for a spectacle. I much prefer that it should be of a lower strain, so it be genuine and equal, than that it should be glittering and unsteady.

Our life is an apprenticeship to the truth that around every circle another can be drawn; that there is no end in nature, but every end is a beginning, and under every deep a lower deep opens.

Life is short but there is always time for courtesy.

One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive one.

My life is for itself and not for a spectacle.

Poetry being ... when we look from the center outward.

Beauty brings its own fancy price, for all that a man hath will he give for his love.

A person's life is limited but serving the people is limitless. I want to devote my limited life to serving the people limitlessly.

Our life is not so much threatened as our perception. Ghostlike we glide through nature, and should not know our place again.

Speech is better than silence; silence is better than speech.

The best of life is conversation.

The Greek epigram intimates that the force of love is not shown by the courting of beauty, but where the like desire is inflamed for one who is ill-favored.

In the true mythology, Love is an immortal child, and Beauty leads him as a guide; nor can we express a deeper sense than when we say, Beauty is the pilot of the young soul.

There is hope in extravagance, there is none in routine.

Self-love is, in almost all men, such an over-weight that they are incredulous of a man's habitual preference of the general good to his own; but when they see it proved by sacrifices of ease, wealth, rank, and of life itself, there is no limit to their admiration.

Life is unnecessarily long. Moments of insight, of fine personal relation, a smile, a glance,--what ample borrowers of eternity they are!

I have heard that whoever loves is in no condition old. I have heard that whenever the name of man is spoken, the doctrine of immortality is announced; it cleaves to his constitution. The mode of it baffles our wit, and no whisper comes to us from the other side. But the inference from the working of intellect, hiving knowledge, hiving skill,--at the end of life just ready to be born,--affirms the inspirations of affection and of the moral sentiment.

A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too short.

The life of truth is cold.

Life is to be lived, not controlled.

I have heard that whoever loves is in no condition old.

Life is a series of surprises.

Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary and virtuous function.

Love is our highest word and the synonym for God.

Life is not measured by its length, but by its depth.

We say love is blind, and the figure of Cupid is drawn with a bandage around his eyes. Blind - yes, because he does not see what he does not like; but the sharpest-sighted hunter in the universe is Love for finding what he seeks, and only that.

All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Perhaps love is only the highest symbol of friendship, as all other things seem symbols of love.

The only prudence in life is concentration.

Love is like a hunter, who cares not for the game when once caught, which he may have pursued with the most intense and breathless eagerness. Love is strongest in pursuit; friendship in possession....

Life is a search after power.

The pleasure of life is according to the man that lives it, and not according to the work or place.

Life is an ecstasy. Life is sweet as nitrous oxide.

My life is not an apology, but a life.

There is no one who does not exaggerate. In conversation, men are encumbered with personality, and talk too much.

Exaggeration is in the course of things. Nature sends no creature, no man into the world, without adding a small excess of his proper quality. Given the planet, it is still necessary to add the impulse; so, to every creature nature added a little violence of direction in its proper path, a shove to put it on its way; in every instance, a slight generosity, a drop too much.

There is no one who does not exaggerate!

Life is too short to waste.

Truth is beautiful within and without, forevermore.

Truth is the summit of being.

There is no God dare wrong a worm.

Wherever the truth is injured, defend it.

Life is our dictionary.