Ralph Waldo Emerson — Spiritual Quotes

210 quotes · Essayist, Philosopher, Poet

Page 6 of 18

Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

All Philosophical Wise Creative Spiritual Courageous 210 quotes · page 6 of 18

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Essayist, Philosopher, Poet

Spiritual

“The other terror that scares us from self-trust is our consistency; a reverence for our past act or word, because the eyes of others have no other data for computing our orbit than our past acts, and we are loath to disappoint them.”

Eye Past Hero

♥ 7

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Essayist, Philosopher, Poet

Spiritual

“When we have broken our god of tradition, and ceased from our god of rhetoric, then may God fire the heart with His presence.”

Heart God Fire

♥ 6

Spiritual

“The disease with which the human mind now labors is want of faith”

Want Mind

♥ 6

Spiritual

“Nature encourages no looseness; pardons no errors.”

Nature Errors

♥ 6

Spiritual

“The rain comes when the wind calls.”

Wind Rain

♥ 7

Spiritual

“God builds his temple in the heart on the ruins of churches and religions.”

Heart Church

♥ 6

Spiritual

“God has delegated himself to a million deputies.”

Angel Millions

♥ 6

Spiritual

“Sleep takes off the costume of circumstance, arms us with terrible freedom, so that every will rushes to deed. A skillful man reads his dreams for his self-knowledge; yet not the details, but the quality. What part does he play in them - a cheerful, manly part, or a poor, drivelling part? However monstrous and grotesque their apparitions, they have a substantial truth.”

Men Dream Sleep

♥ 6

Spiritual

“Our young people are diseased with the theological problems of original sin, origin of evil, predestination, and the like. These never presented a practical difficulty to any man,--never darkened across any man's road, who did not go out of his way to seek them. These are the soul's mumps, and measles, and whooping- coughs, and those who have not caught them cannot describe their health or prescribe a cure. A simple mind will not know these enemies.”

Men Simple Worry

♥ 6

Spiritual

“Magic and all that is ascribed to it is a deep presentiment of the powers of science.”

Magic

♥ 6

Spiritual

“We must not tamper with the organic motion of the soul.”

Soul

♥ 6

Spiritual

“In the matter of religion, people eagerly fasten their eyes on the difference between their own creed and yours; whilst the charm of the study is in finding the agreements and identities in all the religions of humanity.”

Eye Religious Agreement

♥ 6