Quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is not the irregular hours or irregular diet that makes the romantic life.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The divine gift is ever the instant life, which receives and uses and creates, and can well bury the old in the omnipotency with which Nature decomposes all her harvest for recomposition.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We first share the life by which things exist, and afterwards see them as appearances in nature, and forget that we have shared their cause.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life is unnecessarily long. Moments of insight, of fine personal relation, a smile, a glance,--what ample borrowers of eternity they are!
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nor knowest thou what argument Thy life to thy neighbor's creed has lent. All are needed by each one; Nothing is fair or good alone.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life is to be lived, not controlled.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life. Football is four 15-minute quarters. Plus timeouts and commercials.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A ruddy drop of manly blood The surging sea outweighs; The world uncertain comes and goes, The lover rooted stays.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Harmony of aim, not identity of conclusion, is the secret of sympathetic life.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Great men or men of great gifts you shall easily find, but symmetrical men never.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson