Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Friendship Quotes, Dream Quotes

Our friendships hurry to short and poor conclusions, because we have made them a texture of wine and dreams, instead of the toughfibre of the human heart. The laws of friendship are austere and eternal, of one web with the laws of nature and of morals.

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We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

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And so the reliance on Property, including the reliance on governments which protect it, is the want of self-reliance.

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In a virtuous action, I properly am; in a virtuous act, I add to the world; I plant into deserts conquered from Chaos and Nothing, and see the darkness receding on the limits of the horizon.

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Vigor is contagious, and whatever makes us either think or feel strongly adds to our power and enlarges our field of action.

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My life is for itself and not for a spectacle.

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Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world.

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We must not inquire too curiously into the absolute value of literature. Enough that it amuses and exercises us. At least it leaves us where we were. It names things, but does not add things.

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Convert life into truth.

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We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.

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Whatever events in progress shall disgust men with cities, and infuse into them the passion for country life, and country pleasures, will render a service to the whole face of this continent, and will further the most poetic of all the occupations of real life, the bringing out by art the native but hidden graces of the landscape.

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If a man carefully examine his thoughts he will be surprised to find how much he lives in the future. His well-being is always ahead. Such a creature is probably immortal.

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Nature and literature are subjective phenomena; every evil and every good thing is a shadow which we cast

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Contemporary American psychiatrist It is a happy talent to know how to play.

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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.

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Meek young men grow up in libraries.

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The scholar may lose himself in schools, in words, and become a pedant; but when he comprehends his duties, he above all men is arealist, and converses with things.

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The highest virtue is always against the law.

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Activity is contagious.

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The secret of fortune is joy in our hands.

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