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

“Do not speak of God much. After a very little conversation on the highest nature, thought deserts us and we run into formalism.”

Running God Desert

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Essayist, Philosopher, Poet

Spiritual

“The universe is the externisation of the soul. Wherever the life is, that bursts into appearance around it. Our science is sensual, and therefore superficial. The earth, and the heavenly bodies, physics, and chemistry, we sensually treat, as if they were self-existent; but these are the retinue of that Being we have.”

Self Soul Science

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Spiritual

“Nature is the symbol of Spirit.”

Spirit Symbols

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Spiritual

“Labor is God's education.”

Education Work

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Spiritual

“God hides things by putting them near us.”

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Spiritual

“To Be is to live with God.”

God

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Spiritual

“The ocean is a large drop; a drop is a small ocean.”

Ocean

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Spiritual

“It is, in both cases, that a spiritual life has been imparted to nature; that the solid seeming block of matter has been pervadedand dissolved by a thought; that this feeble human being has penetrated the vast masses of nature with an informing soul, and recognised itself in their harmony, that is, seized their law. In physics, when this is attained, the memory disburthens itself of its cumbrous catalogues of particulars, and carries centuries of observation in a single formula.”

Spiritual Memories Block

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“Nor has science sufficient humanity, so long as the naturalist overlooks the wonderful congruity which subsists between man and the world; of which he is lord, not because he is the most subtile inhabitant, but because he is its head and heart, and finds something of himself in every great and small thing, in every mountain stratum, in every new law of color, fact of astronomy, or atmospheric influence which observation or analysis lay open.”

Men Heart Science

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Spiritual

“Let the man stand on his feet. Let religion cease to be occasional; and the pulses of thought that go to the borders of the universe, let them proceed from the bosom of the Household.”

Men Feet Pulse

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Spiritual

“We are adapted to infinity. We are hard to please, and love nothing which ends: and in nature is no end; but every thing, at the end of one use, is lifted into a superior, and the ascent of these things climbs into daemonic and celestial natures.”

Use And Love Ascent

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“But there are higher secrets of culture, which are not for the apprentices, but for proficients. These are lessons only for the brave. We must know our friends under ugly masks. The calamities are our friends.”

Secret Brave Hard Times

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