Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes About Philosophy
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Things bring their own philosophy with them, that is, prudence.
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He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.
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Whenever a true theory appears, it will be its own evidence. Its test is, that it will explain all phenomena.
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To the poet, to the philosopher, to the saint, all things are friendly and sacred, all events profitable, all days holy, all men divine.
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The astonishment of life is the absence of any appearances of reconciliation between the theory and the practice of life.
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We live ruins amid ruins.
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The secret in education lies in respecting the student.
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We learn geology the morning after the earthquake.
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Knowledge is the only elegance.
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A man should have a farm or a mechanical craft for his culture. We must have a basis for our higher accomplishments, our delicate entertainments of poetry and philosophy, in the work of our hands.
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Men are not philosophers, but are rather very foolish children, who, by reason of their partiality, see everything in the most absurd manner, and are the victims at all times of the nearest object. There is even no philosopher who is a philosopher at all times. Our experience, our perception is conditioned by the need to acquire in parts and in succession, that is, with every truth a certain falsehood.
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Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition, and a religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs?
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The poor and the low have their way of expressing the last facts of philosophy as well as you. "Blessed be nothing," and "The worse things are, the better they are," are proverbs which express the transcendentalism of common life.
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Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world.
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It does not need that a poem should be long. Every word was once a poem.
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Live in the fields, and God will give you lectures on natural philosophy every day.
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The civility of no race can be perfect whilst another race is degraded. It is a doctrine alike of the oldest and of the newest philosophy, that man is one, and that you cannot injure any member, without a sympathetic injury to all the members
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A man is a god in ruins.
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Let none presume to measure the irregularities of Michael Angelo or Socrates by village scales.
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Infancy conforms to nobody; all conform to it.
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Art is a jealous mistress; and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider.
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In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
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If the East loves infinity, the West delights in boundaries.
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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.
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No performance is worth loss of geniality. 'Tis a cruel price we pay for certain fancy goods called fine arts and philosophy.
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There is no way to success in art but to take off your coat, grind paint, and work like a digger on the railroad, all day and every day.
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Poetry must be as new as foam and as old as the rock.
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The new statement will comprise the skepticisms, as well as the faiths of society, and out of unbeliefs a creed shall be formed. For, skepticisms are not gratuitous or lawless, but are limitations of the affirmative statement, and the new philosophy must take them in, and make affirmations outside of them, just as much as must include the oldest beliefs.
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Out of Plato come all things that are still written and debated about among men of thought.
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A philosopher must be more than a philosopher.
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