Quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson

What you are afraid to do is a clear indication of what you need to do

The religions of the world are the ejaculations of a few imaginative man.

There is a relation between the hours of our life and the centuries of time.

The measure of mental health is the disposition to find good everywhere.

as the eye is the best composer, so light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make beautiful. And the stimulus it affords to the sense, and a sort of infinitude which it hath, like space and time, make all matter gay. Even the corpse has its own beauty.

I see the spectacle of morning from the hill-top over against my house, from day-break to sun-rise, with emotions which an angel might share

The world thus exists to the soul to satisfy the desire of beauty. This

Each is liable to panic, which is, exactly, the terror of ignorance surrendered to the imagination.

Genius is religious.

I become the transparent eyeball...

In the woods, we return to reason and faith. There I feel that nothing can befall me in life, — no disgrace, no calamity, (leaving me my eyes,) which nature cannot repair.

What's a book? Everything or nothing. The eye that sees it all.