Quote

As every pool reflects the image of the sun, so every thought and thing restores us an image and creature of the supreme Good. Theuniverse is perforated by a million channels for his activity. All things mount and mount.

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
Millions
Creature
Thought
Supreme
Thing
God
Every
Image
Restores
Good
Million
Channels
Things
Sun
Mount
Creatures
Reflects
Activity
Pool

More quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Image
Nature never hurries: atom by atom, little by little, she achieves her work. The lesson one learns from yachting or planting is the manners of Nature patience with the delays of wind and sun, delays of the seasons, bad weather, excess or lack of water.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
When science is learned in love, and its powers are wielded by love, they will appear the supplements and continuations of the material creation.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
I do not speak with any fondness but the language of coolest history, when I say that Boston commands attention as the town whichwas appointed in the destiny of nations to lead the civilization of North America.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
How beautiful to have the church always open, so that every tired wayfaring man may come in and be soothed by all that art can suggest of a better world when he is weary with this.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
Life is March weather, savage and serene in one hour.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
Men lose their tempers in defending their taste.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
Friendship requires more time than poor busy men can usually command.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
Every sweet has its sour every evil its good.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
All is a riddle, and the key to a riddle...is another riddle.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
Do what we can, summer will have its flies.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
The hero is a mind of such balance that no disturbances can shake his will, but pleasantly, and, as it were, merrily, he advancesto his own music, alike in frightful alarms and in the tipsy mirth of universal dissoluteness.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
The multitude of false churches accredits the true religion.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
We talk of choosing our friends, but friends are self-elected.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
Imagination is a very high sort of seeing.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
The use of literature is to afford us a platform whence we may command a view of our present life, a purchase by which we may move it....we see literature best from the midst of wild nature, or from the din of affairs, or from a high religion. The field cannot be well seen from within the field.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
What a searching preacher of self-command is the varying phenomenon of health.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
Adult males are what their moms designed them.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
A certain awkwardness marks the use of borrowed thoughts but as soon as we have learned what to do with them, they become our own.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
The last change in our point of view gives the whole world a pictorial air.
Ralph Waldo Emerson