Ralph Waldo Emerson — Philosophical Quotes

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Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Essayist, Philosopher, Poet

Philosophical

“By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. In fact, it is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others as it is to invent.”

Facts Delight Invention

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Essayist, Philosopher, Poet

Philosophical

“Universities are of course hostile to geniuses, which, seeing and using ways of their own, discredit the routine: as churches and monasteries persecute youthful saints.”

Church College Saint

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Philosophical

“An action is the perfection and publication of thought.”

Action Perfection

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Philosophical

“The world is the perennial miracle which the soul worketh.”

World Soul

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Philosophical

“It seems as if nature, in regarding the geologic night behind her, when, in five or six millenniums, she had turned out five or six men, as Homer, Phidias, Menu, and Columbus, was no wise discontented with the result. These samples attested the virtue of the tree.”

Men Night Wise

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Philosophical

“They who talk much of destiny, their birth-star, etc., are in a lower dangerous plane, and invite the evils they fear.”

Stars Fear Destiny

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Philosophical

“All science is transcendental or else passes away.”

Passing Away Transcendental

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Philosophical

“To speak truly, few adult persons can see nature. Most persons do not see the sun.”

Adults Sun

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Philosophical

“We pass for what we are. Character teaches above our wills. Men imagine that they communicate thier virtue or vice by overt actions, and do not see that virtue or vice emit a breath ever moment....One tendency unites them all. The voyage of the best ship is a zsig zag line of a hundred tacks. See the line from a sufficent distance and it straightens itslef to the average tendency.”

Men Character Distance

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Philosophical

“The secret of culture is to learn, that a few great points steadily reappear, alike in the poverty of the obscurest farm, and in the miscellany of metropolitan life, and that these few are alone to be regarded,--the escape from all false ties; courage to be what we are; and love what is simple and beautiful; independence and cheerful relation, these are the essentials,--these, and the wish to serve,--to add somewhat to the well-being of men.”

Life Beautiful Happiness

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Philosophical

“There is nothing in history to parallel the influence of Jesus Christ.”

Jesus Christ

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Philosophical

“I am become a transparent eyeball.”

Spiritual Transparent

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