Quotes about Emerson

The word liberty in the mouth of Mr. Webster sounds like the word love in the mouth of a courtesan.

This outlook, one that said that American history must be the history of nature speaking through men, not of men shaping nature, became the single most powerful force in American intellectual life in the nineteenth century and shaped some of America's greatest works of literature, such as Moby Dick, Leaves of Grass and Walden, as well as generating an American school of philosophy , to be furthered by William James and John Dewey.

The word liberty in the mouth of Mr. Webster sounds like the word love in the mouth of a courtesan.

Tis the good reader that makes the good book.

The problem of restoring to the world original and eternal beauty is solved by redemption of the soul.

all nature is the rapid efflux of goodness executing and organizing itself.

Nature is the incarnation of thought. The world is the mind precipitated.

The soul is what knows—and draws us towards—truth, beauty, and goodness. Moreover, for Emerson, each person's soul is only a part of the great, universal "over-soul." He describes the soul as a vast ocean, with our individual souls being tiny inlets into the shore. Individuality is an illusion—really, we're all connected, like fingers extending from one hand.

Obey the voice at eve obeyed at prime.

The remedy for all blunders, the cure of blindness, the cure of crime, is love.

Time dissipates to shining ether the solid angularity of facts.

Law rules throughout existence, a Law which is not intelligent, but Intelligence.