Quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man must ride alternately on the horses of his private and his public nature.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The man who renounces himself, comes to himself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
What is the city in which we sit here, but an aggregate of incongruous materials, which have obeyed the will of some man?
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The soul of God is poured into the world through the thoughts of men.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men of character are the conscience of the society to which they belong.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Man's actions are the picture book of his creeds.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
To aim to convert a man by miracles is a profanation of the soul.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
But in our experience, man is cheap and friendship wants its deep sense. We affect to dwell with our friends in their absence, but we do not; when deed, word, or letter comes not, they let us go.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Good churches are not built by bad men; at least, there must be probity and enthusiasm somewhere in the society. These minsters were neither built nor filled by atheists.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man is the facade of a temple wherein all wisdom and all good abide.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is no man of Nature's worth In the circle of the earth.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Intellect is a fire; rash and pitiless it melts this wonderful bone-house which is called man. Genius even, as it is the greatestgood, is the greatest harm.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson