Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Men Quotes, Bread Of Life Quotes

Alas for the unhappy man that is called to stand in the pulpit, and not give the bread of life.

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We are imprisoned in life in the company of persons powerfully unlike us.

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The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.

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Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

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The best of life is conversation.

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The world looks like a multiplication-table, or a mathematical equation, which, turn it how you will, balances itself.

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Lose yourself in nature and find peace

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Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs.

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Skepticism is slow suicide.

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All I know is reception; I am and I have: but I do not get, and when I fancied I had gotten anything, I found I did not.

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If we shall take the good we find, asking no questions, we shall have heaping measures.

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...most men have bound their eyes with one or another handkerchief, and attached themselves to some one of these communities of opinion. This conformity makes them not false in a few particulars, authors of a few lies, but false in all particulars. Their every truth is not quite true. Their two is not the real two, their four not the real four; so that every word they say chagrins us, and we know not where to begin to set them right.

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In every company, there is not only the active and passive sex, but, in both men and women, a deeper and more important sex of mind, namely, the inventive or creative class of both men and women, and the uninventive or accepting class.

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Do what you know and perception is converted into character.

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O friend, never strike sail to a fear!

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If I cannot brag of knowing something, then I brag of not knowing it; at any rate, brag.

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The affirmative class monopolize the homage of mankind. They originate and execute all the great feats. What a force was coiled upin the skull of Napoleon!

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Intellect is void of affection and sees an object as it stands in the light of science, cool and disengaged. The intellect goes out of the individual, floats over its own personality, and regards it as a fact, and not as I and mine.

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Good writing is a kind of skating which carries off the performer where he would not go, and is only right admirable when to all its beauty and speed a subserviency to the will, like that of walking, is added.

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If the race is good, so is the place.

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