Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) war ein US-amerikanischer Essayist, Philosoph und Dichter aus Massachusetts sowie die zentrale Leitfigur des amerikanischen Transzendentalismus. Nachdem er sein unitarisches Pfarramt aufgegeben hatte, trat er in Schriften wie „Self-Reliance“ für geistige Selbstbestimmung, die göttliche Gegenwart in der Natur und das Vertrauen auf die eigene Intuition ein. Für Bibelleser ist er ein sprachmächtiger Impulsgeber zu Charakterstärke und Schöpfungswahrnehmung, dessen Schriften traditionelle kirchliche Dogmen und die exklusive Gottheit Jesu Christi jedoch entschieden ablehnten.

Era: Revival & the 19th Century

Recurring topics: Wisdom & Understanding, Meaning & Identity, Relationships & Family, Freedom & Truth, Joy & Gratitude, Faith & Trust, Courage & Strength, Time & Transience

Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

A friend is someone before whom one can think aloud.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

The years teach much which the days never know.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

A great man is always willing to be little.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

In my walks, every man I meet is my superior in some way, and in that I learn from him.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Never try to make someone else like yourself! You know, and God knows too, that one of your kind is enough.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Weeds are plants whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

What lies behind us and what lies before us matters little compared to what lies within us.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

From the rubble of our despair we build our character.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

What you are speaks louder than what you say.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but into the eye and the heart of the child it shines.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

In the woods, we return to reason and faith.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, not the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

People do not seem to realise that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Envy is ignorance, Imitation is Suicide.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost work, but the solidest things we can know.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humor, vast curiosity, good speech, good silence and nothing too much.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed but that our power to do has increased.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you want your neighbor to believe in God, let him see what God has made of you.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Fear defeats more people than anything else in the world.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

A religion that fears science dishonors God and commits suicide.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

One can never become happy if what one believes does not match what one does.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

You can choose between truth and repose, but you cannot have both at once.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

The best way to have a friend is to be one.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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