There is no one who does not exaggerate. In conversation, men are encumbered with personality, and talk to much.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Life consists of what man is thinking about all day.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Mots clés inspirational

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Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Mots clés greatness

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a man only knows what he's experienced

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Mots clés life experience judgement

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Todo barco es un objeto romántico hasta que nos embarcamos en él

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Sorrow looks back, Worry looks around, Faith looks up

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Mots clés wisdom life inspiration faith sorrow worry

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He in whom the love of repose predominates will accept the first creed, the first philosophy, the first political party he meets — most likely his father's. He gets rest, commodity, and reputation; but he shuts the door of truth.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Mots clés politics truth philosophy prejudice enlightenment prejudices narrow-mindedness convenience closed-mindedness

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I would put myself in the attitude to look in the eye an abstract truth, and I cannot. I blench and withdraw on this side and on that. I seem to know what he meant who said, No man can see God face to face and live.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Mots clés fear truth god abstraction abstract fear-of-truth

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When we are young, we spend much time and pains in filling our note-books with all definitions of Religion, Love, Poetry, Politics, Art, in the hope that, in the course of a few years, we shall have condensed into our encyclopaedia the net value of all the theories at which the world has yet arrived. But year after year our tables get no completeness, and at last we discover that our curve is a parabola, whose arcs will never meet.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Mots clés life truth education learning philosophy youth self-discovery life-lessons facts mathematics

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Solitude is impractical and yet society is fatal.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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