Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Page 9

Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.

Art is the path of the creator to his work.

Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet.

The student is to read history actively not passively.

I have no expectation that any man will read history aright who thinks that what was done in a remote age, by men whose names have resounded far, has any deeper sense than what he is doing today.

What is the foundation of that interest all men feel in Greek history, letters, art, and poetry, in all its periods, from the Heroic or Homeric age down to the domestic life of the Athenians and Spartans, four or five centuries later? What but this, that every man passes personally through a Grecian period.

Marriage is the perfection of what love aimed at, ignorant of what it sought.

When a man is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something.

Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.

The god of Victory is said to be one-handed, but Peace gives victory to both sides.

People do not seem to realise that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.

Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true.

Don't be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams.

Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.

Dreams and beasts are two keys by which we find ou the secret of our own nature. They are test objects.

For what avail the plough or sail, or land or life, if freedom fail?

Outside, among your fellows, among strangers, you must perceive appearances, a hundred things you cannot do; but inside, the terrible freedom!

The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.

Does not… the ear of Handel predict the witchcraft of harmonic sound?