Quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson
Among the map makers of each generation are the risk takers, those who see the opportunities, seize the moment and expand man's vision of the future
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Much of the wisdom of the world is not wisdom, and the most illuminated class of men are no doubt superior to literary fame, and are not writers.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The soul lets no man go without some visitations and holy-days of a diviner presence.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If a man is at heart just, then in so far is he God; the safety of God, the immortality of God, the majesty of God do enter into that man with justice.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our condition as men is risky and ticklish enough. One can not be sure of himself and his fortune an hour, but he may be whisked off into some pitiable or ridiculous plight.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The cheapness of man is every day's tragedy. It is as real a loss that others should be low, as that we should be low; for we musthave a society.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The world of men show like a comedy without laughter: populations, interests, government, history; 't is all toy figures in a toyhouse.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every man is not so much a workman in the world as he is a suggestion of that he should be. Men walk as prophecies of the next age.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Where the banana grows man is sensual and cruel.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is only as a man puts off from himself all external support, and stands alone, that I see him to be strong and to prevail.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men imagine that they communicate their virtue or vice only by overt actions, and do not see that virtue or vice emit a breath every moment.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I see not any road of perfect peace which a man can walk but after the counsel of his own bosom.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson