Quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson
A mind might ponder its thought for an epoch, and not gain so much self-knowledge as the passion of love shall teach in a day.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Christianity taught the capacity, the element, to love the All-perfect without a stingy bargain for personal happiness. It taught that to love Him was happiness;--to love Him in others' virtues.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A life in harmony with nature, the love of truth and virtue, will purge the eyes to understanding her text.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The remedy for all blunders, the cure of blindness, the cure of crime, is love.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
What we love that we have, but by desire we bereave ourselves of the love.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There can be no excess to love, none to knowledge, none to beauty.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The simplest words,--we do not know what they mean except when we love and aspire.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The word liberty in the mouth of Mr. Webster sounds like the word love in the mouth of a courtesan.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Truth is the summit of being; justice is the application of it to affairs.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Why should you renounce your right to traverse the star-lit deserts of truth, of the premature comforts of an acre, house, and barn? Truth also has its roof, and bed, and board.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If we follow the truth, it will bring us out safe at last.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson