Quote

A fact is the end or last issue of spirit. The visible creation is the terminus or the circumference of the invisible world.

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
Ends
Creation
World
Issues
Knowledge
Lasts
Terminus
Last
Circumference
Fact
Visible
Facts
Invisible
Spirit
Issue

More quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Image
Language is the archives of history.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
There is some awe mixed with the joy of our surprise, when this poet, who lived in some past world, two or three hundred years ago, says that which lies close to my own soul, that which I also had wellnigh thought and said.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
The powers of the Soul are commensurate with its needs.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
They think him the best dressed man, whose dress is so fit for his use that you cannot notice or remember to describe it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
The democrat is a young conservative the conservative is an old democrat. The aristocrat is the democrat ripe, and gone to seed,--because both parties stand on the one ground of the supreme value of property, which one endeavors to get, and the other to keep.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
Enthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines of success. When you do a thing, do it with all your might.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
Every time you wink the stars move.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
a good reader makes a good book
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
No man has ever had a point of pride that was not injurious to him.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
These arts open great gates of a future, promising to make the world plastic and to lift human life out of its beggary to a god- like ease and power.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
Love not the flower they pluck and know it not, And all their botany is Latin names.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
Our knowledge is the amassed thought and experience of innumerable minds.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
Man's actions are the picture book of his creeds.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
When all shoot at one mark, the gods join in the combat.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
Of course, he who has put forth his total strength in fit actions, has the richest return of wisdom.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
Do that which you fear to do, and the fear will die.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind and when the same thought occurs to another man, it is the key to that era.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
Practice makes perfect - the sooner you start, the sooner you will be a happy nonsmoker
Ralph Waldo Emerson