Quotes about Unity
If we are related, we shall meet. It was a tradition of the ancient world, that no metamorphosis could hide a god from a god; and there is a Greek verse which runs, The Gods are to each other not unknown. Friends also follow the laws of divine necessity; they gravitate to each other, and cannot otherwise.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Man is a piece of the universe made alive
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Truth, and goodness, and beauty are but different faces of the same all.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is one mind common to all individual men. Every man is an inlet to the same and to all of the same. He that is once admitted to the right of reason is made a freeman of the whole estate. What Plato has thought, he may think; what a saint has felt, he may feel; what at any time has befallen any man, he can understand. Who hath access to this universal mind is a party to all that is or can be done, for this is the only and sovereign agent.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is one light which beams out of a thousand stars. It is one soul which animates all men.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Everything is made of one hidden stuff.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Everything is made of one hidden stuff.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Everything is made of one hidden stuff.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The man is the head of the house but the woman is the neck that turns the head.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Line in nature is not found; Unit and universe are round; In vain produced, all rays return; Evil will bless, and ice will burn.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The purpose of life seems to be to acquaint a man with himself and whatever science or art or course of action he engages in reacts upon and illuminates the recesses of his own mind. Thus friends seem to be only mirrors to draw out and explain to us ourselves; and that which draws us nearer our fellow man, is, that the deep Heart in one, answers the deep Heart in another, -- that we find we have (a common Nature) -- one life which runs through all individuals, and which is indeed Divine.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson