Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Humanity, like every individual, falls ill with age from various diseases.

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He who is capable of creating works of art, has no need to collect them.

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I pay the teacher, but my son is taught by his classmates.

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Good manners are what keep the smart from the stupid.

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Good manners consist of small sacrifices.

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Even if we travel the whole world in search of beauty, we won't find it if we don't take it with us

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The value of a principle is determined by the number of facts it explains.

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The more he defended his honor, the more carefully I counted the spoons.

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The less a man thinks or knows about his own dignity, the more we like him.

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What is a weed? A plant whose merit has yet to be discovered.

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Second to the author of a good maxim is the one who quoted it first.

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After lunch, everyone becomes conservative.

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The day will come when we will be convinced that in what is most personal lies what is most universal.

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The mark of good education is to speak of the grandest things in the simplest words.

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Nature is an ever-changing cloud; never remaining the same, she always remains herself.

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Nature does not tolerate inaccuracies and does not forgive mistakes.

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Nature is created in order, in complicity with the spirit, to emancipate us.

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Hitch your chariot to a star.

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As long as man remains devoted to himself, everyone is on his side: the government, society, even the sun, moon and stars.

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A true genius can be known by the fact that all the fools at his appearance conspire against him.

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No one has yet achieved greatness by following school rules.

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No one speaks the truth and lives righteously for even two minutes.

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Nothing great has ever been accomplished without enthusiasm.

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Nothing is less gladly forgiven than difference of opinion.

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The moral influence of nature on man is measured by the truth she has revealed to him.

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Morality is the direction of the will towards common, universal goals. It is immoral to act out of self-interest. It is moral that whose end can become the end of all rational beings.

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The society is a hospital for the terminally ill.

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You can only explain and justify past actions by committing new ones.

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The motive which prompts a sensitive soul to flee from society lies in the desire to gain society.

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The past is meant to serve us, but we can only master it if we submit to the present.

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The joy of the spirit is the sign of its power.

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Too much likeness to life is fatal to art.

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The ability to see the miraculous in the ordinary is the invariable mark of wisdom.

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The poem must be made up of lines, each of which must be a poem in itself.

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The existing world is not a fantasy. You cannot treat it, with impunity, as a fantasy.

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What is created in art by the hand of man, can never be above the inspiration of the heart.

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What we learned in schools and universities is not education, but only a way to get an education.

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What to others we call sin, we call, as far as we are concerned, life experience.

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Only poetry makes me cleaner and braver.

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Nature cannot be caught unkempt and half-naked: she is always wonderful.

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Weak people believe in luck, strong people in cause and effect.

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As much goodness is in man, so much life is in him.

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Each of us is, at least once in our life, a good speaker.

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The religions we call false were once true.

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The religion of one age is the literary amusement of the next.

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The speeches of Spartans, Stoics, heroes, saints and gods were short and to the point.

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The highest truth may seem trivial tomorrow, in the light of a new idea.

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The greatest man in history was also the poorest.

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The secret of success in society is simple: you need warmth, you need a predisposition towards others.

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The secret of a successful education lies in respecting the student.

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When you're sliding on thin ice, it's all about speed.

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Culture and outward elegance are completely different things.

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Smoking allows us to think we are doing something when we are doing nothing.

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The favorites of the country are those whom we call the soul of man, - these are the people devoid of a shameful selfishness: wherever they are, they feel no discomfort and help everyone else not to feel it.

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Love is fleeting and ends with marriage.

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Love is the reflection by others of self-respect.

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People need to be perceived in not very high doses.

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When Nature wants to create something, she gives birth to a genius.

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When the eyes say one thing and the tongue another, an experienced man trusts the former more.

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A painting should not be too pictorial.

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The true sign of civilization is not the level of wealth and education, it is the size of the cities, it is not the abundance of the harvest, but the face of the man educated by his country.

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History is a pamphlet against all parties.

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Every book is a quote; every house is a quotation from all the woods, mines, and quarries; and every man is a quote from all his ancestors.

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Every book burned lights up the world.

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Any evil to which we do not succumb is a blessing.

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Any character eventually becomes boring.

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Every saint is skeptical at least once a day.

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Every person is for someone a hero and an oracle.

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People only see what they are ready to see.

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People who want to instill terror show how cowardly they are.

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People who are over forty have no right to judge books written in a new spirit.

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We are smarter than we think.

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The thought is a flower, the word is an ovary, and the deed, an embryo.

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To hit the target, you have to aim higher than it.

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Science does not know what it owes to fantasy.

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Do not flatter your benefactors.

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There is nothing simpler than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be grand.

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Never read a book that is less than a year old.

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I am not disturbed by our vices, but I admit that I am ashamed of our virtues.

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We want to live a long life, but in the end, only the depth of life and its great moments matter. Let us, therefore, measure time with a spiritual measure!

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We gladly receive everything that is given to us out of love, only it is like receiving a gift from yourself; but we reject the gift of him who thinks himself entitled to be virtuous.

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People who have character - that's what the conscience of society is...

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A wise man always sides with those who attack him. He is far more interested in finding a weak spot in him than they are.

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Music challenges us to think eloquently.

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Music shows man those possibilities of splendor that lie within his soul.

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We resemble our contemporaries more than our ancestors.

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We get angry at different temperatures.

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In life we ​​find only those things that we ourselves contribute.

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We never forgive the giver. The hand that feeds us can be bitten.

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All good orators started out as poor orators.

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Always do what you are afraid to do.

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Every wall is a door.

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You will be able to take care of your secret better than anyone else.

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The hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he retains his courage for five minutes longer.

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Years teach us many things that days do not know.

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Even if my dinner guests don't look at the clock, they should be able to read the time on my face.

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Money is sometimes too expensive.

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All other pleasures are worthless. How much suffering from love.

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In any creation of genius, we recognize our own rejected thoughts.

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The influence of ideas is proportional. as objects of science, they are available only to some. but all men can rise because of their piety or passion. And no man touches these divine natures without becoming in some measure divine. Like a new soul, they renew the body. We become physically more mobile and brighter; we float in the air; life stops being hard and it seems to us that it will never be like this again. No one is afraid in their clear and bright presence of old age, or misfortune, or death, for, being among them, man is carried far beyond the bounds of the changing. As we look at the empty nature of Justice and Truth, we become familiar with the difference between absolute and conventional or relative. We know the absolute. We exist as if for the first time, we become immortal, because we understand that time and space are the essence of material relations; that they have no affinity with the perception of truth or virtuous will.

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In extravagance there is hope, in mediocrity - none.

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In this world, every man is not so much a creator as a forerunner. Humans carry within themselves the prophecy of the future.

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In fact, there is no history; there are only biographies.

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What is important is not the isolation of the place, but the independence of the spirit. Poets who lived in urban areas remained hermits anyway.

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The great deeds show that the universe belongs to every man who dwells in it.

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Remarkable men are more marked by the breadth and vastness of their views than by their originality.

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The greatest honor you can do to truth is to let yourself be led by it.

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Faith consists in recognizing the arguments of the soul; unbelief consists in denying them.

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Not always the hero's children are heroes; and it is even less likely that his grandchildren will be heroes.

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For friendship to be great, only one condition is needed: that of being able to manage without it.

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Those who live for tomorrow seem selfish in the eyes of those who live only for today.

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Life is eternity in miniature.

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Life is not so short that we have no time for politeness.

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Life is made up of what man thinks throughout the day.

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Living for others is easy; this is how everyone lives.

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Knowledge exists to be spread.

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Inventions beget other inventions.

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Art is a jealous mistress.

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There are people who are too good to spoil by praising them.

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If man seeks beauty not because faith and love demand it, but for the sake of pleasure, he degrades himself as a man.

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If you want to be loved, learn moderation.

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The virtues of society are the vices of the saint.

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Virtuous people draw their strength even from weaknesses and flaws.

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Kindness must not be without firmness, because then it cannot be called kindness. When love is preached full of many whimpers and tears, we must instead learn to hate.

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My friend is the one I can be honest with. In his presence, I can think out loud.

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The chief reward for virtue is virtue itself; the only way to have a friend is to be one yourself.

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If the stars appeared in the sky only once in a thousand years, how would people believe and worship!

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If the child has suddenly become obedient, the mother is very scared: isn't she dying?

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If you write a better book than your neighbor, or preach a bad sermon, or make a better mousetrap, people will keep coming to your house, even if you live in a thick forest.

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In youth we are reformers, in old age, conservatives. The conservative seeks welfare, the reformer, justice and truth.

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Ultimately, love is nothing more than a reflection of people's personal dignity.

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To be great is to be misunderstood.

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Most men and most women have one more spouse than they should.

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The god of cannibals is a cannibal, the god of crusaders is a crusader, and the god of merchants is a merchant.

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Conversation is an art in which a person must compete with all mankind.

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."

"It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself."

"Do not do anything, either among others or alone, which is opposed by your conscience. In our time, people forget that first of all they should respect the human being in themselves."

"The future is only an illusion inferred from our present state. What is important is not the length of life, but the depth of life. What is most important is not to make life longer, but to take your soul out of time, as every sublime act does. Only then does your life become fulfilled. And do not ask yourself questions about time. Jesus did not explain a thing about the eternity of life, but his influence brought people to the eternal."

"You should behave as you think is good, but not following the advice of the crowd."

"Why should a person be rich? Why should he have expensive horses, rich clothes, wonderful rooms, and the leisure to visit public places of entertainment? Because he does not have enough thoughts to accompany his intellect. Give this person the inner work of his intellect, and he will be happier than the richest man."

"What you do, you possess. You must believe that eternal goodness exists that is within you, and that it grows and develops as long as you live."

"The joy of your spirit is the indication of your strength."

"The salvation of mankind depends upon independent thinkers directing their thoughts rightly."

"We grow thus: We come closer to God and God comes closer to us as our will becomes united with the will of God."

"If your heart is filled with virtue, then you will find happiness and beauty."

"If there is something great in you, it will not appear on your first call. It will not appear and come to you easily, without any work and effort."

"God gives a choice to every soul between truth and peace."

"The soul knows everything. No new thing can surprise it. Nothing can be bigger than it. Let others be afraid, but the soul is not afraid of anything. It lives according to its own laws. It is bigger than space and older than time. It gives courage against all the misfortunes of life."

"Nothing will bring you peace except yourself."

"Most of our spending is done to forward our efforts to look like others."

"What a great treasure can be hidden in a small, selected library! A company of the wisest and the most deserving people from all the civilized countries of the world, for thousands of years, can make the results of their studies and their wisdom available to us. The thought which they might not even reveal to their best friends is written here in clear words for us, people from another century. Yes, we should be grateful for the best books, for the best spiritual achievements in our lives."

"Do not wish for death just because your life is hard. All the burdens on your shoulders will help you fulfill your destiny. The only way to get rid of your burdens is to live your life in such a way that you fulfill your destiny."

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Let's take nature's pace: the secret is patience.

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A grown man is imprisoned by his consciousness. As soon as he has spoken or acted effectively even once, he is already a prisoner, guarded by the sympathy or hatred of hundreds and hundreds, whose feelings he must henceforth always consider.

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My skills may be few and shoddy, but I am who I am, and I don't need the credentials of others to secure myself or my peers.

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It is easy in the world to live according to the world's opinion; it is easy to live according to your own opinion in solitude. But the great man is the one who can preserve the independence of solitude with perfect calm in the midst of the turmoil of the crowd.

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Nature is not slow to pull the uniform of our party on us. At the same time, the faces and shapes of all of us become the same, and slowly we all get the facial expression of the good old donkey.

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Your honest act explains itself, and it explains your other honest acts as well. On the contrary, the fact that you act in agreement with others does not explain anything. Act independently, and what you have done independently so far will justify you now.

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A true person is not a slave of time and place, but the center of things.

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The person is shy and apologetic in nature. He no longer walks with his head held high. He does not dare to say: "I think this" or: "I am" - but instead immediately quotes someone else.

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People procrastinate or remember. He does not live in the present, but mourns the past with averted eyes, or, not caring about the wealth that surrounds him, stands on tiptoe to spy on the future.

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What we love is ours, but greedy desire robs us of love.

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Outside the crown, the whole world seems to be conspiring to annoy you with grandiose nothingness. Friend, client, child, illness, fear, need, charity: they all knock on the closed door at the same time and call: "Come out to us!" However, stay inside, don't get mixed up in their mess. Only my feeble curiosity gives people the opportunity to torture me. Because no one can come close to me (...) through my own actions.

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If you are true, but follow a different truth than I, join your fellows; I will look for mine. Not out of selfishness, but humbly and sincerely. It is in your interest and mine and everyone's to live truthfully, no matter how long we have lived in the middle of a lie.

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The law of conscience is eternal. There are two confessionals, in one of which we must kneel. Directly or indirectly, i.e. in a reflected way, you clarify to yourself that you have fulfilled the scope of your duties. Think about whether you have fulfilled your relationship to your father, mother, relative, neighbor, city, dog, cat; may not one of these reproach you? But on the other hand, I can neglect this indirect mirror measure and I can also dissolve myself. Because I have the hard demands of ownership on myself, and they come full circle. (...) But only the one who has something divine in him can be confident that he can be his own legislator. His heart must be elevated, his will full of faith, his eyes sharp; he must be his own teaching, company, and law with profound seriousness; his simple determination must be as strong for him as iron tyranny is for others!

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The soul plays with time - it can condense eternity into an hour or stretch the hour into eternity.

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All life is an experiment.

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There is no history, only biographies.

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There is no rust on nature's wheels.

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Nature is a cloud that is forever the same and never the same.

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Traveling is a fool's paradise.

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Always do what you are afraid to do.

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There is no port. It is neither dream nor death; The seemingly dead is alive. Your parental home, Your springtime friends, Old man and young girl, Your daily work and reward They all disappear, They fade into a fairy tale, They are unattainable.

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Our faith lasts for moments, our sins are fixed.

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We will never forgive each other for one sin: difference of opinion.

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The days come and go like wrapped, veiled figures sent by a distant group of friends and say nothing. But if we don't use the gift they bring, they take it away silently.

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Standing in the middle of our own sunlight gives us the most shade in this life.

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Write in your heart that every day is the best day of the year. No one has really learned anything until they know that every day is judgment day.

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One of our illusions is that the current hour is not crucial.

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A person is nothing but what he thinks all day.

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Let one learn to look at the permanent in the changing and transient; learn to endure the disappearance of things which you have been accustomed to respect, without losing your respect; learn that he is not here to create, but to be shaped.

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It's as if the manly muscles and heart have been cut out of us: we've become shy, low-spirited whiners. We fear the truth; we fear fate; we are afraid of death and we are afraid of each other. Our age does not produce great and perfect people. (...) Most people are insolvent, unable even to meet their own needs; his ambition is out of all proportion to his practical strength, and he is always giggling and begging day and night. Our household is demanding; we did not choose our arts, occupations, domesticity, religion, but society chose them for us. We are salon heroes. We are far away from the fierce battle of Fate, where strength is born.

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A noble soul is always elegant.

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Anything else may go out of fashion, but a strong will will always be in fashion.

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No one should go anywhere where he cannot take his entire circle of friends and society with him - not physically, but his atmosphere. Even in his new company, he must preserve his normal mental attitude and his realistic relationship with his everyday companions, because otherwise he will be an orphan even in the most cheerful circle and feel deprived of his best rays.

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Without a rich heart, even the richest is a miserable beggar.

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Fear is a raven, and even though you can't clearly see what it's waiting for, it's certain that there's a dead body somewhere.

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The true reward of work is knowledge and virtue.

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The deer in the story admired his horns and scolded his feet, but when the hunter took him in the chase, his feet saved him first; later, however, lost in the thicket, his horns caused his loss. Every person gets into a situation in his life when his mistakes oblige him to be grateful.

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He sides with the attackers of the wise man. He has an even greater interest than theirs in finding his own vulnerable points. The wound heals and peels off him, and when his enemies want to triumph over him, behold, he has become invulnerable.

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No matter which direction you choose, there will always be someone who will tell you that you are on the wrong path. There are always difficulties that tempt you to believe that your critics are right. It takes courage to plan a course and follow it step by step to your final destination.

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Fear is the biggest victim in the world.

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We pray for a long life, but life with deep meaning, the big moments, are what really matter. Time should be measured spiritually, not mechanically.

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Talent is the activity that makes things right.

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How much human life is wasted by waiting; so don't keep your fellow man waiting.

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Independence is the best asset.

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Life rushes away in the death of a horse. Either we chase a running shadow, or we are chased, driven by some fear, ghost. But when we meet a friend, we stop, and now we consider our feverish rush to be great madness. Now we yearn for a break, for possession, and for the power to make the moment conceived from the bottom of our hearts last. In every noble relationship, the moment is everything.

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Empty grief is a false state of mind. Dissatisfaction is a lack of self-confidence: weakness of will.

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Mind your business, and the problem will start to ease.

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We ourselves are the forgers of our luck, if we seize things joyfully.

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The soul is not a wandering traveler (...). Our soul travels even when our body is forced to stay at home.

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I have no small objection to circumnavigating the globe, if it is done for the sake of art, studies, or philanthropy, provided that person knows his country and does not go abroad with the hope that he will find something greater than what he knows. However, he who travels for sheer fun or to see something that he cannot bring with him travels of his own accord, distances himself, and grows old in his youth amidst old things.

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Stick to yourself; never be an imitator! In fact, you can show off your talent every minute, with the accumulated power of a lifetime of culture; but you can keep the borrowed talent of others only temporarily and only for half as long.

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Do what is appointed for you, and there is nothing you cannot hope for; there is nothing you cannot dare.

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Society never progresses. What you gain on the road, you lose on customs. (...) Society acquires new skills, but loses ancient instincts. (...) Civilized man built a cart, but lost the use of his legs. He can walk on crutches, but he has lost the same amount of muscle strength. He has a fine Geneva clock, but he can no longer tell the time from the position of the sun. He has a Greenwich ship's pocket book, and he is sure that it will give him the information if he needs it, but he does not know the stars when he walks on the street. Nor does it observe the changes in the sun's path; he hardly knows the solar sign, and in his mind no face of the clock corresponds to the whole luminous calendar of the year. His notebook spoils his memory; libraries overwhelm his natural mind; insurance companies multiply accidents; and it is a question whether machines do not hinder rather than promote; haven't we lost a lot of energy through refinement?

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A truly educated person (...) does not boast of his wealth, because he values ​​his individuality much more.

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All of man's true value is necessarily and always acquired by himself, and what man acquires is living property, which does not depend on the whims of the ruling power, the masses, revolutions, the danger of fire, storms, bank failures, but is eternally renewed by man until his last breath.

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Personality and character are as big and inexhaustible as a star.

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One warm word from the heart will make you rich.

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The real and lasting victory is peace, not war.

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The true glory of friendship is not the hand extended to each other, not the kind smile, not even the joy of company, but the spiritual and spiritual enlightenment you can be a part of when you realize that a fellow human being believes and trusts you!

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The world makes way for the person who knows where he is going.

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Does anyone remember a time when it wasn't hard and when we weren't tight on money?

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To laugh often and a lot; to win the respect of intelligent people, the affection of children; to earn the praise of honest critics and bear the treachery of false friends; to enjoy the beautiful, to find the good in others; to make the world a little better - with a healthy child, a tiny garden or by living on your feet; knowing that at least someone is breathing easier because it was you. This is prosperity, this is success.

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Life is a series of lessons that we have to experience in order to understand them.

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There is no private life that cannot be exposed. You can't keep secrets in the civilized world. Society is like a masquerade ball, where everyone hides their true personality, but while hiding, we are exposed.

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Don't follow the beaten path, but rather go in the direction where no one has gone before, and leave footprints behind!

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The only way to make a friend is to become one ourselves.

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A true friend is one in front of whom I can think aloud.

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For every minute you spend brooding, you lose 60 seconds of happiness.

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If you want to lift me up, you have to stand taller than me.

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The hero is no braver than an average person, but five minutes longer.

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I compared myself to one of my friends who wants everything in the world and is disappointed when he doesn't get the best. I have found that I myself start more and more at the other extreme, I don't expect anything and I am grateful for everything, even the smallest things.

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Those who know how will always find work. Whoever knows why will always be your boss.

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What I have seen so far has taught me to trust the Creator for what I have yet to see.

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No matter what language you speak, you can never say anything other than what you are.

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All that is behind us and all that is before us is dwarfed by what is within us.

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Every wall is a door.

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The lovers' once-flaming love is purified with time. Love becomes a perfect understanding of each other. The progressive purification of the mind and heart from year to year: this is true marriage.

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Happiness is a perfume that cannot be sprinkled on others without a few drops reaching us.

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One of the greatest blessings about old friends is that you can afford to make a fool of yourself in front of them.

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A political victory, an increase in rent, the recovery of your sick or the return of your absent friend, or some other external event will cheer you up and you will think that good days are ahead of you. Don't believe it. It's not like that. Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.

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Your actions speak so loudly to me that I can't hear what you're saying otherwise.

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The sharpest hunter in the world is love.

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The religion of one age is the literary entertainment of the next.

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We are always preparing to live, but we never really live.

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What we need most in our lives is to have someone to push us to do what we are capable of.

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Every single person I meet is superior to me in some way. So I learn from him.

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Great people are always misunderstood.

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The secret is the answer to everything that is, has been, and will ever be.

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If you forget other people's hearts, you lose your own.

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What great wealth there can be in a small select library, in which is found the community of wise and worthy authors, in due order, who have been selected in the civilized countries of the world over thousands of years by their individual studies and wisdom! Because of their aloofness and unapproachability, they might have been impatient for us to disturb them in their absorption and preoccupation, or their general circumstances would have made conversation impossible. But the thought, which they did not reveal even to their best friend, is recorded here in an understandable form for us, strangers of other centuries.

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The merit of the greatest thinkers lies precisely in the fact that, regardless of existing books and traditions, they gave expression to what they themselves thought and not to what their predecessors or the people around them thought. Therefore, each of us should listen, watch and grasp those pure thoughts that sometimes flare up and catch fire in a person's consciousness. This inner lightning is of incomparably more importance for all of us than if we were to study the whole constellation of poets and sages.

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There comes a time in every man's upbringing when he is convinced that envy is ignorance; imitation is suicide; that he must accept himself whether he likes it or not; that, though the wide world is full of goodness, not a single grain of nourishing wheat comes to him, unless he labors for it in the piece of ground which he is given to cultivate. The power that lies within him is new to the world, and no one but him knows what he can do, and he only if he has tried.

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My life is for you, not a window display. And I prefer it to be simple, but true and even, than dazzling and uncertain. Be healthy and pleasant, and don't need diets and blood vessels.

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A man should not protect his dignity, but his dignity should protect him.

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Every achievement of the so-called progress is accompanied by certain losses: for example, society is enriched by an invention, but at the same time a characteristic that is born with all of us is lost. The educated man has a swing, but he can hardly use his legs anymore. He has a great Geneva clock, but he gets an astronomical calendar because he trusts that he can find everything he needs to know in the book, he doesn't recognize a single star in the sky, and he doesn't notice either the spring or autumn equinoxes. A sensible person rejects all trivial things and always returns in the end to what he needs most.

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The truth is beautiful, no doubt about it...as is a lie.

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I always thought I would look back at us crying and then laugh, but I never thought I would look back laughing and then cry.

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Confidence is the first secret of success.

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Everyone can do what they are most famous for most easily.

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Even the longest wave is quickly lost in the sea.

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The only real gift is when you give a piece of yourself.

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To fill the hour - this is happiness; to fill the class, leaving no room for regret, and not waiting for approval.

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No matter what path you choose for yourself, there will always be those who will tell you that you are wrong. There will always be such difficulties that you will believe that maybe the critics are right. Choosing and following the path to the end always requires great courage.

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Good thoughts are no better than good dreams unless they are acted upon.

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To the dull mind all nature is leaden. To the enlightened mind, the whole world is bursting with color and sparkling with light.

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Speak the truth, and all nature and all the spirits will side with you! Speak the truth, and everything living and inanimate will vindicate you, even the roots of the grass will move underground to testify for you.

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Good manners are built from small sacrifices.

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Things that are meant for you gravitate towards you.

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Similar can only be known by similar.

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The most deeply affecting, the most healing music is speech from the heart.

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A friend is a paradox of nature, as well as a masterpiece. The only being, (...) from whom I do not desire what he has, but what he is.

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Age doesn't mean much to a woman. The best melodies are played by the oldest violins.

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With everything we lose, we gain something, and with everything we gain, we lose something.

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You can never do a favor early enough because you never know when it will be too late.

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One of the most beautiful compensations in life is that no man can honestly help another without helping himself.

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One in our hands is worth more than two in the air.