Ralph Waldo Emerson — Wise Quotes

448 quotes · Essayist, Philosopher, Poet

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Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Essayist, Philosopher, Poet

Wise

“He is a dull observer whose experience has not taught him the reality and force of magic, as well as of chemistry.”

Reality Magic Dull

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Essayist, Philosopher, Poet

Wise

“But I cannot recite, even thus rudely, laws of the intellect, without remembering that lofty and sequestered class of men who have been its prophets and oracles, the high-priesthood of the pure reason, the Trismegisti, the expounders of the principles of thought from age to age.”

Men Law Class

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“A right rule for a club would be,-Admit no man whose presence excludes any one topic.”

Men Would Be

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“I have never met a man who was not my superior in some particular.”

Men Mets

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“Instead of making Christianity a vehicle of truth, you make truth only a horse for Christianity.”

Christian Horse Christianity

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“A man cannot speak but he judges himself. With his will or against his will he draws his portrait to the eye of his companions by every word. Every opinion reacts on him who utters it. It is a threadball thrown at a mark, but the other end remains on the thrower”

Men Eye Judging

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“We are all wise for other people, none for himself.”

People Wise

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“There is something servile in the habit of seeking after a law which we must obey.”

Law Habit

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“A poem, a sentence, causes us to see ourselves. I be, and I see my being, at the same time.”

Writing Causes Sentences

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“[on Thoreau:] For not a particle of respect had he to the opinions of any man or body of men, but homage solely to truth itself.”

Men Body Truth

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“Taking to pieces is the trade of those who cannot construct.”

Pieces Criticism

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“All history is but the lengthened shadow of a great man.”

Men History

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