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

“Mankind have such a deep stake in inward illumination, that there is much to be said by the hermit or monk in defence of his life of thought and prayer.”

Prayer Inward Illumination

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Essayist, Philosopher, Poet

Spiritual

“The time is coming when all men will see that the gift of God to the soul is not a vaunting, overpowering, excluding sanctity, buta sweet, natural goodness, a goodness like thine and mine, and that so invites thine and mine to be and to grow.”

Men God Sweet

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Spiritual

“Dare to love God without mediator or veil.”

God Dare Veils

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Spiritual

“The question is whether [suicide] is the way out, or the way in.”

Way Suicide

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Spiritual

“We fly to beauty as an asylum from the terrors of finite nature.”

Nature Beauty

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Spiritual

“At times the whole world seems to be in conspiracy to importune you with emphatic trifles.”

World Conspiracy Trifles

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Spiritual

“...as there is no screen or ceiling between our heads and the infinite heavens, so is there no bar or wall in the soul where man, the effect, ceases, and God, the cause, begins. The walls are taken away. We lie open on one side to the deeps of spiritual nature, to the attributes of God. Justice we see and know, Love, Freedom, Power. These natures no man ever got above, but they tower over us, and most in the moment when our interests tempt us to wound them.”

Lying Spiritual Wall

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Spiritual

“When we attempt to define and describe God, both language and thought desert us, and we are as helpless as fools and savages.”

God Desert Savages

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Spiritual

“Teach me your mood, O patient stars. Who climb each night, the ancient sky. leaving on space no shade, no scars, no trace of age, no fear to die.”

Night Stars Sky

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Spiritual

“It is for want of self-culture that the superstition of Travelling, whose idols are Italy, England, Egypt, retains its fascinationfor all educated Americans.”

Self Travel Egypt

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Spiritual

“The world proceeds from the same spirit as the body of man. It is a remoter and inferior incarnation of God, a projection of God in the unconscious.”

Men God Nature

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Spiritual

“God never jests with us, and will not compromise the end of nature, by permitting any inconsequence in its procession.”

God Knowledge Compromise

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