Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Mirrors Quotes, Perception Quotes

Perception is a mirror not a fact. And what I look on is my state of mind, reflected outward.

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We know that madness belongs to love,--what power to paint a vile object in hues of heaven.

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Friendship buys friendship.

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New arts destroy the old.

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But a public oration is an escapade, a non-committal, an apology, a gag, and not a communication, not a speech, not a man.

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Living without Laughing isn't living. Be silly. Be honest. Be Kind.

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Line in Nature is not found; Unit and Universe are round.

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Great thoughts ensure musical expression.

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The betrothed and accepted lover has lost the wildest charms of his maiden by her acceptance. She was heaven while he pursued her, but she cannot be heaven if she stoops to one such as he!

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The mass of men worry themselves into nameless graves while here and there a great unselfish soul forgets himself into immortality.

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The ragged cliff has thousand faces in a thousand hours.

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Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinction. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit. It is like ice, on which no beauty of form, no majesty of carriage, can plead any immunity; they must walk gingerly, according to the laws of ice, or down they must go, dignity and all.

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

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I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.

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In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs. RALPH WALDO EMERSON, Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks Greek architecture is the perfect flowering of geometry.

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When private men shall act with original views, the lustre will be transferred from the actions of kings to those of gentlemen.

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Power resides in the moment of transition from a past to a new state.

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We forget ourselves and our destinies in health, and the chief use of temporary sickness is to remind us of these concerns.

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When it is darkest, we can see the stars.

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Black men built the railroads, not blue eyes.

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