Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Intuition Quotes, Lasts Quotes

The primary wisdom is intuition. In that deep force, the last fact behind which analysis cannot go, all things find their origin.

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We judge others by their actions but we judge ourselves by our intensions.

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No doubt, to a man of sense, travel offers advantages. As many languages as he has, as many friends, as many arts and trades, so many times is he a man. A foreign country is a point of comparison, wherefrom to judge his own.

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I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth. If two or three persons should come with a high spiritual aim and with great powers, the world would fall into their hands like a ripe peach.

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Our books approach very slowly the things we most wish to know.

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Go cherish your soul; express companions; set your habits to a life of solitude; then will the faculties rise fair and full within.

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What is civilization? I answer, the power of good women.

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This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.

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Great men are more distinguished by range and extent than by originality.

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Each particle is a microcosm, and faithfully renders the likeness of the world.

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Take egotism out and you would castrate the benefactors.

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Tis weak and vicious people who cast the blame on Fate. The right use of Fate is to bring up our conduct to the loftiness of nature.

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Nature avenges herself speedily on the hard pedantry that would chain her waves. She is no literalist. Every thing must be taken genially, and we must be at the top of our condition, to understand any thing rightly.

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In nature, all is useful, all is beautiful. It is therefore beautiful, because it is alive, moving, reproductive; it is thereforeuseful, because it is symmetrical and fair. Beauty will not come at the call of a legislature, nor will it repeat in England or America its history in Greece. It will come, as always, unannounced, and spring up between the feet of brave and earnest men.

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Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations. The only sin is limitation. As soon as you once come up with a man's limitations, it is all over with him.

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Faith and love are apt to be spasmodic in the best minds: Men live on the brink of mysteries and harmonies into which yet they never enter, and with their hand on the doorlatch they die outside.

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I cannot often enough say, that a man is only a relative and representative nature. Each is a hint of the truth, but far enough from being that truth, which yet he quite newly and inevitably suggests to us. If I seek it in him, I shall not find it.

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Let it suffice that in the light of these two facts, namely, that the mind is One, and that nature is its correlative, history isto be read and written.

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I wish to say what I think and feel today, with the proviso that tomorrow perhaps I shall contradict it all.

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Let us draw a lesson from nature, which always works by short ways. When the fruit is ripe, it falls.

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