Ralph Waldo Emerson — Spiritual Quotes

210 quotes · Essayist, Philosopher, Poet

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Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Essayist, Philosopher, Poet

Spiritual

“Of immortality, the soul, when well employed, is incurious. It is so well, that it is sure that it will be well. It asks no questions of the Supreme Power.”

Soul Wells Immortality

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Essayist, Philosopher, Poet

Spiritual

“With each divine impulse the mind rends the thin rinds of the visible and finite, and comes out into eternity, and inspires and expires its air. It converses with truths that have always been spoken in the world, and becomes conscious of a closer sympathy with Zeno and Arrian, than with persons in the house.”

House Air Inspire

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Spiritual

“Our condition as men is risky and ticklish enough. One can not be sure of himself and his fortune an hour, but he may be whisked off into some pitiable or ridiculous plight.”

Men Fate Plight

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Spiritual

“If I quake, what matters it what I quake at? Our proper vice takes form in one or another shape, according to the sex, age, or temperament of the person, and, if we are capable of fear, will readily find terrors.”

Sex Fear What Matters

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Spiritual

“In our definitions, we grope after the spiritual by describing it as invisible. The true meaning of spiritual is real; that law which executes itself, which works without means, and which cannot be conceived as not existing.”

Real Spiritual God

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Spiritual

“In all conversation between two persons, tacit reference is made, as to a third party, to a common nature. That third party or common nature is not social; it is impersonal; is God.”

Two Party God

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Spiritual

“If a man is at heart just, then in so far is he God; the safety of God, the immortality of God, the majesty of God do enter into that man with justice.”

Men Heart God

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Spiritual

“There is never a beginning, there is never an end, to the inexplicable continuity of this web of God, but always circular power returning into itself.”

God Ends Power

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Spiritual

“Belief and love,--a believing love will relieve us of a vast load of care. O my brothers, God exists. There is a soul at the centre of nature, and over the will of every man, so that none of us can wrong the universe.”

Believe Brother God

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Spiritual

“Let us stun and astonish the intruding rabble of men and books and institutions by a simple declaration of the divine fact. Bid the invaders take the shoes from off their feet, for God is here within.”

Book Simple God

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Spiritual

“As every pool reflects the image of the sun, so every thought and thing restores us an image and creature of the supreme Good. Theuniverse is perforated by a million channels for his activity. All things mount and mount.”

God Sun Pool

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Spiritual

“We are imprisoned in life in the company of persons powerfully unlike us.”

Life Company Alienation

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