Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Philosophy Quotes, Men Quotes

The civility of no race can be perfect whilst another race is degraded. It is a doctrine alike of the oldest and of the newest philosophy, that man is one, and that you cannot injure any member, without a sympathetic injury to all the members

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It never was in the power of any man or any community to call the arts into being. They come to serve his actual wants, never to please his fancy.

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You do not get power so that you can go out and do things, you go out and do things and you will get the power

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When we have arrived at the question, the answer is already near.

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Things are in the saddle. And ride mankind.

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The unsaid part is the best of every discourse.

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I am the lover of uncontained and immortal beauty. In the wilderness, I find something more dear and connate than in streets or villages. In the tranquil landscape, and especially in the distant line of the horizon, man beholds somewhat as beautiful as his own nature.

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A self-denial, no less austere than the saint's, is demanded of the scholar. He must worship truth, and forgo all things for that,and choose defeat and pain, so that his treasure in thought is thereby augmented.

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The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men around to his opinion twenty years later.

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Great works of art have no more affecting lesson for us than this. They teach us to abide by our own spontaneous expression with good humored inflexibility whether the whole cry of voices is on the other side.

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Solitude is impractical and yet society is fatal.

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The glance is natural magic. The mysterious communication established across a house between two entire strangers, moves all the springs of wonder. The communication by the glance is in the greatest part not subject to the control of the will. It is the bodily symbol of identity with nature. We look into the eyes to know if this other form is another self, and the eyes will not lie, but make a faithful confession what inhabitant is there.

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The plays of children are nonsense, but very educative nonsense. So it is with the largest and solemnest things, with commerce, government, church, marriage, and so with the history of every man's bread, and the ways by which he is to come by it.

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Our condition as men is risky and ticklish enough. One can not be sure of himself and his fortune an hour, but he may be whisked off into some pitiable or ridiculous plight.

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The connection between our knowledge and the abyss of being is still real, and the explication must be not less magnificent.

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Oh, be my friend, and teach me to be thine!

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Action is with the scholar subordinate, but it is essential. Without it, he is not yet man. Without it, thought can never ripen into truth.

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Nature has her own best mode of doing each thing, and she has somewhere told it plainly, if we will keep our eyes and ears open. If not, she will not be slow in undeceiving us, when we prefer our own way to hers.

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The philosophy of waiting is sustained by all the oracles of the universe.

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The babe in arms is a channel through which the energies we call fate, love, and reason visibly stream.

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