Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Men Quotes

When a man meets his make, society begins.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Men Quotes

Let a stoic open the resources of man, and tell men they are not leaning willows, but can and must detach themselves; that with the exercise of self-trust, new powers shall appear.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Exercise Quotes , Men Quotes

My companion assumes to know my mood and habit of thought, and we go on from explanation to explanation, until all is said that words can, and we leave matters just as they were at first, because of that vicious assumption.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Understanding Quotes , Goes On Quotes

Be a little careful about your library. Do you foresee what you will do with it? Very little to be sure. But the real question is what it will do with you? You will come here and get books that will open your eyes, and your ears, and your curiosity, and turn you inside out or outside in.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Real Quotes , Book Quotes

There is no luck in literary reputation. They who make up the final verdict upon every book are not the partial and noisy readers of the hour when it appears; but a court as of angels, a public not to be bribed, not to be entreated, and not to be overawed, decides upon every man's title to fame.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Art Quotes , Book Quotes

Men talk as if victory were something fortunate. Work is victory.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Life Quotes , Motivational Quotes

I appeal now to the convictions of the communicants, and ask such persons whether they have not been occasionally conscious of a painful confusion of thought between the worship due to God and the commemoration due to Christ.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Confusion Quotes , Worship Quotes

Why should we not have a first-hand and immediate experience of God?

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Spiritual Quotes , Hands Quotes

The true preacher can be known by this, that he deals out to the people his life,--life passed through the fire of thought.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Fire Quotes , People Quotes

We can only obey our own polarity.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Fate Quotes

Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Roots Quotes , Perspective Quotes

Out of sleeping a waking, Out of waking a sleep.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Sleep Quotes

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.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Friends Quotes , Ocean Quotes

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.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Weed Quotes , War Quotes