Announced by all the trumpets of the sky,
Arrives the snow, and, driving o'er the fields,
Seems nowhere to alight
Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of our own mind.
Ralph Waldo EmersonGod offers to every mind a choice between repose and truth. take which you please--you can never have both. [Essay on Intellect]
Ralph Waldo EmersonOur faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual.
Ralph Waldo EmersonSatu-satunya cara untuk mendapat sahabat ialah dengan menjadi sahabat.
Ralph Waldo EmersonIf we are related, we shall meet. It was a tradition of the ancient world, that no metamorphosis could hide a god from a god; and there is a Greek verse which runs,
"The Gods are to each other not unknown."
Friends also follow the laws of divine necessity; they gravitate to each other, and cannot otherwise.
Tags: character
The etymologist finds the deadest words to have been once a brilliant picture. Language is fossil poetry.
Ralph Waldo EmersonTags: etymology
I found when I had finished my new lecture that it was a very good house, only the architect had unfortunately omitted the stairs.
Ralph Waldo EmersonTags: writing
Let the reader find that he cannot afford to omit any line of your writing because you have omitted every word that he can spare.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThus to him, to this school-boy under the bending dome of day, is suggested, that he and it proceed from one root; one is leaf and one is flower; relation, sympathy, stirring in every vein. And what is that Root? Is not that the soul of his soul?―A thought too bold,―a dream too wild. Yet when this spiritual light shall have revealed the law of more earthly natures,―when he has learned to worship the soul, and to see that the natural philosophy that now is, is only the first gropings of its gigantic hand, he shall look forward to an ever expanding knowledge as to a becoming creator. He shall see, that nature is the opposite of the soul, answering to it part for part. One is seal, and one is print. Its beauty is the beauty of his own mind. Its laws are the laws of his own mind. Nature then becomes to him the measure of his attainments. So much of nature as he is ignorant of, so much of his own mind does he not yet possess. And, in fine, the ancient precept, "Know thyself," and the modern precept, "Study nature," become at last one maxim.
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