Ralph Waldo Emerson — Philosophical Quotes

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Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Essayist, Philosopher, Poet

Philosophical

“Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them. It depends on the mood of the man, whether he shall see the sunset or the fine poem. There are always sunsets, and there is always genius; but only a few hours so serene that we can relish nature or criticism. The more or less depends on structure or temperament. Temperament is the iron wire on which the beads are strung. Of what use is fortune or talent to a cold and defective store?”

Book Appreciation Sunset

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Essayist, Philosopher, Poet

Philosophical

“I do not hesitate to read. all good books in translations. What is really best in any book is translatable-any real insight or broad human sentiment.”

Real Book Language

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Philosophical

“A few strong instincts and a few plain rules suffice us”

Strong Intuition

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Philosophical

“Philanthropies and charities have a certain air of quackery.”

Air Charity

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Philosophical

“Masses are rude, lame, unmade, pernicious in their demands and influence, and need not to be flattered, but to be schooled. I wish not to concede anything to them, but to tame, drill, divide, and break them up, and draw individuals out of them.”

Wish Individuality Rude

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Philosophical

“If government knew how, I should like to see it check, not multiply, the population. When it reaches its true law of action, every man that is born will be hailed as essential.”

Men Law Essentials

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Philosophical

“Wisdom is infused into every form.”

Wisdom Form

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Philosophical

“To a physician, each man, each woman, is an amplification of one organ.”

Men Physicians

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Philosophical

“The intellect is vagabond, and our system of education fosters restlessness. Our minds travel when our bodies are forced to stay at home. We imitate; and what is imitation but the travelling of the mind?”

Home Education Travel

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Philosophical

“Providence has a wild, rough, incalculable road to its end, and it is of no use to try to whitewash its huge, mixed instrumentalities, or to dress up that terrific benefactor in a clean shirt and white neckcloth of a student in divinity.”

Trying White Dresses

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Philosophical

“It is so wonderful to our neurologists that a man can see without his eyes, that it does not occur to them that is just as wonderful that he should see with them; and that is ever the difference between the wise and the unwise: the latter wonders at what is unusual, the wise man wonders at the usual.”

Eye Wise Wisdom

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Philosophical

“The Times are the masquerade of the eternities; trivial to the dull, tokens of noble and majestic agents to the wise; the receptacle in which the Past leaves its history; the quarry out of which the genius of today is building up the Future.”

Past Wise Future

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