Quote

The piety of the Hebrew prophets purges their grossness. The circumcision is an example of the power of poetry to raise the low and offensive.

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
Lows
Symbolism
Poetry
Hebrew
Example
Prophets
Power
Piety
Offensive
Prophet
Grossness
Raise
Purges
Raises
Circumcision

More quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Image
If I made laws for Shakers or a school, I should gazette every Saturday all the words they were wont to use in reporting religious experience, as spiritual life, God, soul, cross, etc., and if they could not find new ones next week, they might remain silent.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
We sometimes meet an original gentleman, who, if manners had not existed, would have invented them.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine, a possession for all time.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
Science surpasses the old miracles of mythology.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
We don't grow old. When we cease to grow, we become old.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
It's a luxury to be understood.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
If you are wise, you will dread a prosperity which only loads you with more.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
I ought to go upright and vital, and speak the rude truth in all ways.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
Eyes...They speak all languages.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
Great men are sincere.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
Without the great arts which speak to the sense of beauty, a man seems to me a poor, naked, shivering creature. These are his becoming draperies, which warm and adorn him.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
Every man should let out all the length of all the reigns should find or make a frank and healthy expression of what force and meaning is in him.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
No one can read the history of astronomy without perceiving that Copernicus, Newton, Laplace, are not new men, or a new kind of men, but that Thales, Anaximenes, Hipparchus, Empodocles, Aristorchus, Pythagorus, Oenipodes, had anticipated them.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
When the gods come among men, they are not known.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
I know nothing which life has to offer so satisfying as the profound good understanding, which can subsist, after much exchange ofgood offices, between two virtuous men, each of whom is sure of himself, and sure of his friend. It is a happiness which postpones all other gratifications, and makes politics, and commerce, and churches, cheap.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
An orator or author is never successful till he has learned to make his words smaller than his ideas.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
What we seek we shall find what we flee from flees from us.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
When he is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something he has been put on his wits, on his manhood he has gained facts learns his ignorance is cured of the insanity of conceit has got moderation and real skill.
Ralph Waldo Emerson