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 Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief in denying them. Ralph Waldo Emerson soul belief inspirational The artists must be sacrificed to their art. Like the bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give. Ralph Waldo Emerson life history art A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends. Ralph Waldo Emerson real-friends greatness friendship The faith that stands on authority is not faith. Ralph Waldo Emerson authority faith religion Man is a piece of the universe made alive Ralph Waldo Emerson pieces alive men Art should exhilarate, and throw down the walls of circumstance on every side, awakening in the beholder the same sense of universal relation and power which the work evinced in the artist. Ralph Waldo Emerson wall awakening art We forget ourselves and our destinies in health, and the chief use of temporary sickness is to remind us of these concerns. Ralph Waldo Emerson destiny health use Books are the best of things if well used; if abused, among the worst. They are good for nothing but to inspire. I had better never see a book than be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit, and made a satellite instead of a system. Ralph Waldo Emerson inspire war book A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud. I am arrived at last in the presence of a man so real and equal, that I may drop even those undermost garments of dissimulation, courtesy, and second thought, which men never put off, and may deal with him with the simplicity and wholeness with which one chemical atom meets another. Ralph Waldo Emerson real friendship men There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide. Ralph Waldo Emerson ignorance suicide education Let us advance on Chaos and the Dark Ralph Waldo Emerson chaos dark The ship of heaven guides itself and will not accept a wooden rudder. Ralph Waldo Emerson ships acceptance heaven Our housekeeping is mendicant, our arts, our occupations, our marriages, our religion we have not chosen but society has chosen for us. Ralph Waldo Emerson occupation art religion Men in all ways are better than they seem. Ralph Waldo Emerson appearance men way Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies. Ralph Waldo Emerson honesty truth beautiful If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore; and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God which had been shown! But every night come out these envoys of beauty, and light the universe with their admonishing smile. Ralph Waldo Emerson nature beauty inspirational A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer. Ralph Waldo Emerson motivational inspirational love There are always two parties; Ralph Waldo Emerson movement party two In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty. Ralph Waldo Emerson work philosophy art Poetry must be as new as foam and as old as the rock. Ralph Waldo Emerson rocks philosophy art
