Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

Science does not know its debt to imagination.

If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.

Do the thing we fear,

and death of fear is certain.

Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.

All mankind love a lover.

When nature has work to be done,

she creates a genius to do it.

Beauty without expression is boring.

Every fact is related on one side to sensation,

and, on the other, to morals.

The game of thought is,

on the appearance of one of these two sides,

to find the other: given the upper,

to find the under side.

We are born believing.

A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.

We acquire the strength we have overcome.

It is a fact often observed,

that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion,

who cannot write well under other circumstances.

It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy,

that the world owes the world more than the world can pay.

Every sentence spoken by Napoleon,

and every line of his writing,

deserves reading,

as it is the sense of France.

Every burned book enlightens the world.

As we grow old,

the beauty steals inward.

Cause and effect are two sides of one fact.

A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

As we are, so we associate.

The good, by affinity,

seek the good;

the vile, by affinity, the vile.

Thus of their own volition,

souls proceed into Heaven,

into Hell.

Every wall is a door.

Reality is a sliding door.