Ralph Waldo Emerson — Philosophical Quotes

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Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Essayist, Philosopher, Poet

Philosophical

“Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.”

Facts Natural Native American

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Essayist, Philosopher, Poet

Philosophical

“Nature is full of freaks, and now puts an old head on young shoulders, and then takes a young heart heating under fourscore winters.”

Heart Nature Time

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Philosophical

“Mysticism is the mistake of an accidental and individual symbol for an universal one.”

Mistake Individual

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Philosophical

“The sanity of society is a balance of a thousand insanity's.”

Balance Insanity

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Philosophical

“Fate, then, is a name for facts not yet passed under the fire of thought; for causes which are unpenetrated.”

Fire Fate Destiny

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Philosophical

“Natural religion supplies still all the facts which are disguised under the dogma of popular creeds. The progress of religion is steadily to its identity with morals.”

Religion Progress Identity

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Philosophical

“The eye of prudence may never shut.”

Eye May

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Philosophical

“For what are they all in their high conceit, When man in the bush with God may meet?”

Men May

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Philosophical

“A life in harmony with nature, the love of truth and virtue, will purge the eyes to understanding her text.”

Life Eye Truth

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Philosophical

“Spoons and skimmers you can be undistinguishably together; but vases and statues require each a pedestal for itself.”

Together Equality Pedestal

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Philosophical

“Cut these words and they would bleed; they are vascular and alive.”

Cutting Alive

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Philosophical

“Surely nobody would be a charlatan, who could afford to be sincere.”

Would Be Politics

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