Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Life Quotes, Philosophical Quotes

When the act of reflection takes place in the mind, when we look at ourselves in the light of thought, we discover that our life is embosomed in beauty.

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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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What is the end of human life? It is not, believe me, the chief end of man that he should make a fortune and beget children whose end is likewise to make a fortune, but it is, in few words, that he should explore himself.

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Nothing can be colder than his head, when the lightnings of his imagination are playing in the sky.

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Let ideas establish their legitimate sway again in society, let life be fair and poetic, and the scholars will gladly be lovers, citizens, and philanthropists.

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In the last analysis, love is only the reflection of a man's own worthiness from other men.

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And what avails it that science has come to treat space and time as simply forms of thought, and the material world as hypothetical, and withal our pretension of property and even of self-hood are fading with the rest, if, at last, even our thoughts are not finalities, but the incessant flowing and ascension reach these also, and each thought which yesterday was a finality, to-day is yielding to a larger generalization?

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A hero is a man who is afraid to run away.

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It is a luxury to be understood.

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Men grind and grind in the mill of a truism, and nothing comes out but what was put in. But the moment they desert the tradition for a spontaneous thought, then poetry, wit, hope, virtue, learning, anecdote, and all flock to their aid.

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There is a genius of a nation, which is not to be found in the numerical citizens, but which characterizes the society.

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Every man is a borrower and a mimic, life is theatrical and literature a quotation.

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When a man speaks the truth in the spirit of truth, his eye is as clear as the heavens. When he has base ends, and speaks falsely, the eye is muddy, and sometimes asquint.

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I can believe a miracle because I can raise my own arm. I can believe a miracle because I can remember. I can believe it because I can speak and be understood by you.

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Shallow men believe in luck.

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An eminent teacher of girls said, "the idea of a girl's education, is, whatever qualifies them for going to Europe.

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I would study, I would know, I would admire forever.

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As much wisdom may be expended on a private economy as on an empire, and as much wisdom may be drawn from it.

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Practice radical humility." He (or she)who masters the art of humility cannot be humiliated.

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You cannot see the mountain near.

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