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 Europe has always owed to oriental genius its divine impulses. What these holy bards said, all sane men found agreeable and true. Ralph Waldo Emerson europe men religion The moment the doctrine of the immortality is separately taught, man is already fallen. In the flowing of love, in the adoration of humility, there is no question of continuance. No inspired man ever asks this question, or condescends to these evidences. For the soul is true to itself, and the man in whom it is shed abroad cannot wander from the present, which is infinite, to a future which would be finite. Ralph Waldo Emerson humility soul men Our religion vulgarly stands on numbers of believers. Whenever the appeal is made--no matter how indirectly--to numbers, proclamation is then and there made, that religion is not. He that finds God a sweet, enveloping presence, who shall dare to come in? Ralph Waldo Emerson god numbers sweet The reliance on authority measures the decline of religion, the withdrawal of the soul. Ralph Waldo Emerson withdrawal soul religion Draw, if thou canst, the mystic line, Ralph Waldo Emerson lines divine religion Music and Wine are one. Ralph Waldo Emerson musician music wine In Haydn's oratorios, the notes present to the imagination not only motions, as, of the snake, the stag, and the elephant, but colors also; as the green grass. Ralph Waldo Emerson snakes music color Two touch the string, Ralph Waldo Emerson music solitude two A cheerful intelligent face is the end of culture, and success enough. For it indicates the purpose of Nature and wisdom attained. Ralph Waldo Emerson wisdom success happiness To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom. It is not the part of men, but of fanatics, or of mathematicians, if you will, to say, that, the shortness of life considered, it is not worth caring whether for so short a duration we were sprawling in want, or sitting high. Since our office is with moments, let us husband them. Ralph Waldo Emerson wisdom time life The first questions are always to be asked, and the wisest doctor is gravelled by the inquisitiveness of a child. Ralph Waldo Emerson doctors wisdom children Be lord of a day, through wisdom and justice, and you can put up your history books. Ralph Waldo Emerson wisdom book history It is so wonderful to our neurologists that a man can see without his eyes, that it does not occur to them that is just as wonderful that he should see with them; and that is ever the difference between the wise and the unwise: the latter wonders at what is unusual, the wise man wonders at the usual. Ralph Waldo Emerson eye wisdom wise To educate the wise man, the State exists; and with the appearance of the wise man, the State expires. The appearance of charactermakes the state unnecessary. The wise man is the State. Ralph Waldo Emerson wisdom wise men We judge of a man's wisdom by his hope, knowing that the inexhaustibleness of nature is an immortal youth. Ralph Waldo Emerson wisdom hope men Drudgery, calamity, exasperation, want, are instructors in eloquence and wisdom. Ralph Waldo Emerson wisdom suffering knowledge Much of the wisdom of the world is not wisdom, and the most illuminated class of men are no doubt superior to literary fame, and are not writers. Ralph Waldo Emerson wisdom class men There is a certain wisdom of humanity which is common to the greatest men with the lowest, and which our ordinary education oftenlabors to silence and obstruct. Ralph Waldo Emerson wisdom education men It is the delight of vulgar talent to dazzle and to bind the beholder. But true genius seeks to defend us from itself. True geniuswill not impoverish, but will liberate, and add new sense. If a wise man should appear in our village, he would create, in those who conversed with him, a new consciousness of wealth, by opening their eyes to unobserved advantages; he would establish a sense of immovable equality, calm us with assurances that we could not be cheated; as every one would discern the checks and guarantees of condition. Ralph Waldo Emerson eye wisdom wise When life has been well spent, age is a loss of what it can well spare,--muscular strength, organic instincts, gross bulk, and works that belong to these. But the central wisdom, which was old in infancy, is young in fourscore years, and dropping off obstructions, leaves in happy subjects the mind purified and wise. Ralph Waldo Emerson infancy-is wise loss
