Quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson
When the gods come among men, they are not known.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
What is it men love in Genius, but its infinite hope, which degrades all it has done? Genius counts all its miracles poor and short. Its own idea it never executed.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Let me admonish you, first of all, to go alone; to refuse the good models, even those which are sacred in the imagination of men, and dare to love God without mediator or veil.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We want a state of things in which crime will not pay, a state of things which allows every man the largest liberty compatible with the liberty of every other man.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
As soon as the man is at one with God, he will not beg. He will then see prayer in all action.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Begin and proceed on a settled conviction that but little is permitted to any man to do or to know, and if he complies with the first grand laws, he shall do well.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Happy the man who never puts on a face, but receives every visitor with that countenance he has on.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is nothing but is related to us, nothing that does not interest us,--kingdom, college, tree, horse, or iron show,--the rootsof all things are in man.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
For, rightly, every man is a channel through which heaven floweth, and, whilst I fancied I was criticising him, I was censuring orrather terminating my own soul.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The finished man of the world must eat of every apple once.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A part of fate is the freedom of man. Forever wells up the impulse of choosing and acting in his soul.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The young man reveres men of genius, because, to speak truly, they are more himself than he is.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson