Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Real Quotes, Curiosity Quotes

A friend, therefore, is a sort of paradox in nature. I who alone am, I who see nothing in nature whose existence I can affirm with equal evidence to my own, behold now the semblance of my being, in all its height, variety, and curiosity, reiterated in a foreign form; so that a friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

5 years ago

Message Copied

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

A man of thought must feel the thought that is parent of the universe: that the masses of nature do undulate and flow.

5 years ago

Message Copied

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

All men are poets at heart. They serve nature for bread, but her loveliness overcomes them sometimes.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Nature Quotes , Heart Quotes

We might as easily reprove the east wind, or the frost, as a political party, whose members, for the most part, could give no account of their position, but stand for the defence of those interests in which they find themselves.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Party Quotes , Wind Quotes

Whatever appeals to the imagination, by transcending the ordinary limits of human ability, wonderfully encourages and liberates us.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Imagination Quotes , Ordinary Quotes

Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite without any wish to act.

5 years ago

Message Copied

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

You will think me very pedantic, gentlemen, but holiday though it may be, I have not the smallest interest in any holiday, except as it celebrates real and not pretended joys.

5 years ago

Message Copied

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

Converse with a mind that is grandly simple, and literature looks like word-catching.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Simple Quotes , Simplicity Quotes

Every moment instructs, and every object; for wisdom is infused into every form. It has been poured into us as blood; it convulsed us as pain; it slid into us as pleasure; it enveloped us in dull, melancholy days, or in days of cheerful labor; we did not guess its essence until after long time.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Wisdom Quotes , Pain Quotes

We ascribe beauty to that which is simple; which has no superfluous parts; which exactly answers its end; which stands related to all things; which is the mean of many extremes.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Beauty Quotes , Mean Quotes

Spring still makes spring in the mind When sixty years are told: Love wakes anew this throbbing heart, And we are never old Over the winter glaciers I see the summer glow And through the wind-piled snowdrift The warm rosebuds below.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Summer Quotes , Spring Quotes

The flowering of civilization is the finished man, the man of sense, of grace, of accomplishment, of social power--the gentleman.

5 years ago

Message Copied

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

The reality is more excellent than the report.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Reality Quotes , Excellent Quotes

As Arkwright and Whitney were the demi-gods of cotton, so prolific Time will yet bring an inventor to every plant. There is not a property in nature but a mind is born to seek and find it.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Nature Quotes , Science Quotes

The genius is a genius by the first look he casts on any object. Is his eye creative? Does he not rest in angles and colors, but beholds the design,--he will presently undervalue the actual object.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Eye Quotes , Color Quotes

An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Men Quotes , Self Reliance Quotes

Solitude is naught and society is naught. Alternate them and the good of each is seen.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

Great conversation ... requires an absolute running of two souls into one.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Running Quotes , Two Quotes

Women stand related to beautiful nature around us, and the enamoured youth mixes their form with moon and stars, with woods and waters, and the pomp of summer. They heal us of awkwardness by their words and looks. We observe their intellectual influence on the most serious student. They refine and clear his mind: teach him to put a pleasing method into what is dry and difficult.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Beautiful Quotes , Summer Quotes

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.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Beauty Quotes , Children Quotes