Emerson Cod Quotes & Sayings

All is a riddle, and the key to a riddle ... is another riddle. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

My mother always told me growing up I had a punchable face. Little did I know she was predicting my television career. — Michael Emerson

Dad said I would always be "high minded and low waged" from reading too much Ralph Waldo Emerson. Maybe he was right. — Jim Harrison

The State is a poor, good beast who means the best: it means friendly. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

We lie in the lap of immense intelligence, which makes us receivers of its truth and organ of its activity. When we discern justice, when we discern truth, we do nothing by ourselves, but allow a passage to its beams. If we ask whence this comes, if we seek to pry into the soul that causes, all philosophy is at fault. Its presence or its absence is all we can affirm. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Away with this hurrah of masses, and let us have the considerate vote of single men. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The condition of true naming, on the poet's part, is his resigning himself to the divine aura which breathes through forms, and accompanying that. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Well, most men have bound their eyes with one or another handkerchief, — Ralph Waldo Emerson

With a strong domestic economy, low national unemployment at 5 percent, and increasing retail sales, the picture should look rosy. But one look at the trade deficit changes all of that. — Jo Ann Emerson

Throb thine with Nature's throbbing breast. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The dearest events are summer-rain. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The one prudence in life is concentration; the one evil is dissipation: and it makes no difference whether our dissipations are coarse or fine; property and its cares, friends and a social habit, or politics, or music, or feasting. Everything is good which takes away one plaything and delusion more, and drives us home to add one stroke of faithful work. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

You become what you think about all day long. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

This whole business of Trade gives me to pause and think, as it constitutes false relations between men; inasmuch as I am prone tocount myself relieved of any responsibility to behave well and nobly to that person who I pay with money, whereas if I had not that commodity, I should be put on my good behavior in all companies, and man would be a benefactor to man, as being himself his only certificate that he had a right to those aids and services which each asked of the other. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

What I need is someone who will make me do what I can. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

It happens to us once or twice in a lifetime to be drunk with some book which probably has some extraordinary relative power to intoxicate us and none other; and having exhausted that cup of enchantment we go groping in libraries all our years afterwards in the hope of being in Paradise again. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every man is entitled to be valued by his best moment. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

To Be is to live with God. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Accuracy is essential to beauty. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

You're scared," he said quietly.
"Scared?" I scoffed. "Of what?"
"Of anything real. And what we have is real. You love me and it terrifies you."
"I don't love you," I lied.
He grabbed my face then, dragging me closer with both hands. "You love me. I know you do. I know it because I can see it in your eyes ... in the way you look at me." He inhaled. "It's the same way I look at you. — Sophie Jordan

Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition, and a religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs? — Ralph Waldo Emerson

A sage is the instructor of a hundred ages. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the new stand side by side, and admit of being compared; when the energies of all men are searched by fear and by hope; when the historic glories of the old can be compensated by the rich possibilities of the new era? — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The highest Beauty should be plain set. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

An artist spends himself like the crayon in his hand, till he is all gone. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Age, like woman, requires fit surroundings. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Their spirituality was in nature, even though Emerson was a preacher on the pulpit, he ended up going out into nature for direct, face-to-face communication with God, if you want to call all of this creation part of God. — Story Musgrave

The beautiful is never plentiful. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The finished man of the world must eat of every apple once. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

See only that thou work and thou canst not escape the reward. — Ralph Waldo Emerson