Quote

Nature is made to conspire with spirit to emancipate us.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Age: 78 †
Born: 1803
Born: May 25
Died: 1882
Died: April 27
Biographer
Diarist
Essayist
Philosopher
Poet
Writer
Boston
Massachusetts
R. W. Emerson
Waldo Emerson
Emancipate
Conspire
Spirit
Nature
Made

More quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Image
It is the doctrine of the popular music-masters, that whoever can speak can sing. So, probably, every man is eloquent once in his life. Our temperaments differ in capacity of heat, or
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
Things bring their own philosophy with them, that is, prudence.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
History no longer shall be a dull book. It shall walk incarnate in every just and wise man. You shall not tell me by language and titles a catalogue of the volumes you have read. You shall make me feel what periods you have lived.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
It is about your outlook towards life. You can either regret or rejoice.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
When its errands are noble and adequate, a steamboat bridging the Atlantic between Old and New England, and arriving at its ports with the punctuality of a planet, is a step of man into harmony with nature.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
How much of human life is lost in waiting.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
Is the parent better than the child into whom he has cast his ripened being? Whence, then, this worship of the past?
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
One of the benefits of a college education is to show the boy its little avail.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
I hope in these days we have heard the last of conformity and consistency. Let the words be gazetted and ridiculous henceforward.Instead of the gong for dinner, let us hear a whistle from the Spartan fife.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
Money is of no value it cannot spend itself. All depends on the skill of the spender.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
Man sheds grief as his skin sheds rain.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
There are eyes, to be sure, that give no more admission into the man than blueberries.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of beat.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
A man in the view of absolute goodness, adores, with total humility. Every step downward, is a step upward. The man who renounceshimself, comes to himself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
We shall one day learn to supersede politics by education. What we call our root-and-branch reforms of slavery, war, gambling, intemperance, is only medicating the symptoms. We must begin higher up, namely, in education.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
Life is a search after power and this is an element with which the world is so saturated,-there is no chink or crevice in which it is not lodged,-that no honest seeking goes unrewarded.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
The idealism of Berkeley is only a crude statement of the idealism of Jesus, and that again is a crude statement of the fact thatall nature is the rapid efflux of goodness executing and organizing itself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson