Quotes about Unity
There is no teaching until the pupil is brought into the same state or principle in which you are; a transfusion takes place; he is you and you are he; then is a teaching, and by no unfriendly chance or bad company can he ever quite lose the benefit.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
For the secrets of life are not shown except to sympathy and likeness.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sorrow makes us all children again[,] destroys all differences of intellect[.] The wisest know nothing[.]
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine, — a possession for all time.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
In a certain sense, everything is everywhere at all times. For every location involves an aspect of itself in every other location. Thus every spatio-temporal standpoint mirrors the world.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe? Why should not we have a
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Transcendentalists assert that the human mind is the same—and just as open to inspiration—across all boundaries of geography, culture, race, and religion. They celebrate the expansive, daring explorations of the Eastern mind, and find much wisdom in Hinduism and Buddhism.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
But what is classification but the perceiving that these objects are not chaotic, and are not foreign, but have a law which is also a law of the human mind?
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Yes, but does Maine have anything to SAY to Florida?
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
There will be an agreement in whatever variety of actions, so they be each honest and natural in their hour. For of one will, the actions will be harmonious, however unlike they seem.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Each creature is only a modification of the other; the likeness in them is more than the difference, and their radical law is one and the same.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson