Quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson
Law rules throughout existence, a Law which is not intelligent, but Intelligence.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Good is positive. Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of heat. All evil is so much death or nonentity. Benevolence is absolute and real. So much benevolence as a man hath, so much life hath he.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
All infractions of love and equity in our social relations are speedily punished-by fear...be honest with a man and you have no fear. Try to deceive and the relationship deteriorates.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The religion of one age is the literary entertainment of the next.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Religion is to do right. It is to love, it is to serve, it is to think, it is to be humble.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The fatal trait of the times is the divorce between religion and morality.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The multitude of false churches accredits the true religion.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is a crack in everything God has made.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men are respectable only as they respect.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is one other reason for dressing well, namely that dogs respect it, and will not attack you in good clothes.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson