The most active lives have so much routine as to preclude progress almost equally with the most inactive. Ralph Waldo Emerson More Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson More Quotes From Ralph Waldo Emerson In science we have to consider two things: power and circumstance. Ralph Waldo Emerson circumstances two science Intellect is void of affection and sees an object as it stands in the light of science, cool and disengaged. The intellect goes out of the individual, floats over its own personality, and regards it as a fact, and not as I and mine. Ralph Waldo Emerson light personality science Science always goes abreast with the just elevation of the man, keeping step with religion and metaphysics; or, the state of science is an index of our self-knowledge. Ralph Waldo Emerson self men science Science corrects the old creeds, sweeps away, with every new perception, our infantile catechisms, and necessitates a faith commensurate with the grander orbits and universal laws which it discloses yet it does not surprise the moral sentiment that was older and awaited expectant these larger insights. Ralph Waldo Emerson perception law science Science finds it methods. Ralph Waldo Emerson accounts method science Science surpasses the old miracles of mythology. Ralph Waldo Emerson mythology miracle science Science, Nature,-O, I've yearned to open some page. Ralph Waldo Emerson pages nature science Something is wanting to science until it has been humanised. Ralph Waldo Emerson accounts has-beens science The Good Spirit never cared for the colleges, and though all men and boys were now drilled in Greek, Latin, and Mathematics, it had quite left these shells high on the beach, and was creating and feeding other matters [science] at other ends of the world. Ralph Waldo Emerson latin beach science As Arkwright and Whitney were the demi-gods of cotton, so prolific Time will yet bring an inventor to every plant. There is not a property in nature but a mind is born to seek and find it. Ralph Waldo Emerson nature mind science A man should carry nature in his head. Ralph Waldo Emerson learning nature science Drive out Nature with a fork, she comes running back. Ralph Waldo Emerson nature running science The idiot, the Indian, the child and unschooled farmer's boy stand nearer to the light by which nature is to be read, than the dissector or the antiquary. Ralph Waldo Emerson nature science children Our best history is still poetry. Ralph Waldo Emerson best-history stills history It is always so pleasant to be generous, though very vexatious to pay debts. Ralph Waldo Emerson debt generosity pay We cannot let our angels go; we do not see that they only go out that archangels may come in. Ralph Waldo Emerson archangel angel may We must be courteous to a man as we are to a picture, which we are willing to give the advantage of a good light. Ralph Waldo Emerson light giving men Many might go to Heaven with half the labor they go to hell. Ralph Waldo Emerson half might heaven The first and last lesson of religion is, "The things that are seen, are temporal; the things that are unseen, are eternal." It puts an affront upon nature. Ralph Waldo Emerson atheism lessons religion A woman should always challenge our respect, and never move our compassion. Ralph Waldo Emerson respect compassion moving
