The true ship is the ship builder. Ralph Waldo Emerson More Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson More Quotes From Ralph Waldo Emerson Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts. Ralph Waldo Emerson transcendentalism instinct art Conversation is our account of ourselves...Conversation is the vent of character as well as thoughts...It is the laboratory of the student. Ralph Waldo Emerson students conversation character Genius always finds itself a century too early. Ralph Waldo Emerson intelligence talent genius We teach boys to be such men as we are. We do not teach them to aspire to be all they can. We do not give them a training as if webelieved in their noble nature. We scarce educate their bodies. We do not train the eye and the hand. We exercise their understandings to the apprehension and comparison of some facts, to a skill in numbers, in words; we aim to make accountants, attorneys, engineers; but not to make able, earnest, great- hearted men. Ralph Waldo Emerson eye exercise education We are shut up in school and college recitation rooms for ten to fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyful of words and do not know a thing. We cannot use our hands, or our legs, or our eyes, or our arms. We do not know an edible root in the woods. We cannot tell our course by the stars, nor the hour of day by the sun. It is well if we can swim and skate. We are afraid of a horse or a cow, of a dog, of a cat, of a spider. Far better was the Roman rule to teach a boy nothing that he could not learn standing. Ralph Waldo Emerson horse stars dog If the race is good, so is the place. Ralph Waldo Emerson race ifs Some people will tell you there is a great deal of poetry and fine sentiment in a chest of tea. Ralph Waldo Emerson tea-drinking tea-party people Traveling is a fool's paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places. Ralph Waldo Emerson tourism journey travel Masses are rude, lame, unmade, pernicious in their demands and influence, and need not to be flattered, but to be schooled. I wish not to concede anything to them, but to tame, drill, divide, and break them up, and draw individuals out of them. Ralph Waldo Emerson individuality rude wish My life is for itself and not for a spectacle. Ralph Waldo Emerson reliance self-reliance life-is Friends are like spaghetti, they should stick together. The only way to have a friend is to be one. Ralph Waldo Emerson together friendship way Perception is a mirror not a fact. And what I look on is my state of mind, reflected outward. Ralph Waldo Emerson perception mirrors mind The blazing evidence of immortality is our dissatisfaction with any other solution. Ralph Waldo Emerson evidence immortality blazing I will no longer confer, differ, refer, defer, prefer, or suffer. I renounce the whole tribe of fero. I embrace absolute life. Ralph Waldo Emerson tribes suffering thinking I shun father and mother and wife and brother when my genius calls me. I would write on the lintels of the door-post, Whim. I hope that it is somewhat better than whim at last, but we cannot spend the day in explanation. Ralph Waldo Emerson brother mother father A beautiful woman is a practical poet, taming her savage mate, planting tenderness, hope and eloquence in all whom she approaches. Ralph Waldo Emerson women hope beautiful It is a sign of our times, conspicuous to the coarsest observer, that many intelligent and religious persons withdraw themselves from the common labors and competitions of the market and the caucus, and betake themselves to a certain solitary and critical way of living, from which no solid fruit has yet appeared to justify their separation. Ralph Waldo Emerson competition intelligent religious There is the illusion of time, which is very deep; who has disposed of it? Mor come to the conviction that what seems the succession of thought is only the distribution of wholes into causal series. Ralph Waldo Emerson illusion conviction time Great causes are never tried on their merits; but the cause is reduced to particulars to suit the size of the partizans, and the contention is ever hottest on minor matters. Ralph Waldo Emerson suits causes matter Everything is made of one hidden stuff. Ralph Waldo Emerson earth-and-nature made stuff
