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  • I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.

    Reading   Book   Learning  
  • Meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it their duty to accept the views which Cicero, which Locke, which Bacon, have given, forgetful that Cicero, Locke, and Bacon were only young men in libraries, when they wrote these books.

    The American Scholar sec. 2 (1837)
  • There is creative reading as well as creative writing.

    Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alfred R. Ferguson (1965). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume V: 1835-1838”, p.233, Harvard University Press
  • If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him.

    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.505
  • This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.

    1837 'The American Scholar', lecture at Harvard University.
  • The world is nothing, the man is all; in yourself is the law of all nature, and you know not yet how a globule of sap ascends; in yourself slumbers the whole of Reason; it is for you to know all, it is for you to dare all.

    Men   Law   Sap  
    Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Ernest Spiller, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Joseph Slater, Jean Ferguson Carr (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature, addresses, and lectures”, p.69, Harvard University Press
  • Man Thinking must not be subdued by his instruments. Books are for the scholar's idle times. When he can read God directly, the hour is too precious to be wasted in other men's transcripts of their readings.

    Book   Reading   Men  
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.66, Penguin
  • The office of the scholar is to cheer, to raise, and to guide men by showing them facts amidst appearances.

    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.182
  • The world is his who can see through its pretension.

    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.71, Penguin
  • The state of society is one in which the members have suffered amputation from the trunk, and strut about so many walking monsters,—a good finger, a neck, a stomach, an elbow, but never a man.

    Men   Necks   Monsters  
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.175
  • Action is with the scholar subordinate, but it is essential. Without it, he is not yet man. Without it, thought can never ripen into truth.

    Men   Essentials   Action  
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.49, Modern Library
  • He then learns that in going down into the secrets of his own mind, he has descended into the secrets of all minds.

    Learning   Secret   Mind  
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Emerson's Essays: Top Essays”, p.20, 谷月社
  • The cause of freedom is not the cause of a race or a sect, a party or a class - it is the cause of humankind, the very birthright of humanity.

    Anna Julia Cooper, Charles C. Lemert, Esme Bhan (1998). “The Voice of Anna Julia Cooper: Including A Voice from the South and Other Important Essays, Papers, and Letters”, p.106, Rowman & Littlefield
  • It is one soul which animates all men.

    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.502
  • We will walk on our own feet; we will work with our own hands; we will speak our own minds... A nation of men will for the first time exist, because each believes himself inspired by the Divine Soul which also inspires all men.

    Believe   Men   Hands  
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.4249, Delphi Classics
  • Of all the many memoirs by former Soviet officials, Palazchenko's is among the best written and also the most objective. Even his descriptions of U.S. policy are more accurate and judicious than those of some American scholars.

  • It is one light which beams out of a thousand stars. It is one soul which animates all men.

    Stars   Men   Light  
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.502
  • Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as strong to think.

    "The American Scholar". Ralph Waldo Emerson's Oration delivered before the Phi Beta Kappa Society, at Cambridge, emersoncentral.com. August 31, 1837.
  • Meek young men grow up in libraries.

    The American Scholar sec. 2 (1837)
  • Not he is great who can alter matter, but he who can alter my state of mind.

    Friedrich Nietzsche, Graham Parkes (2008). “Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for Everyone and Nobody”, p.21, Oxford University Press
  • And, in fine, the ancient precept, "Know thyself," and the modern precept, "Study nature," become at last one maxim.

    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1850). “Nature: Addresses, and Lectures”, p.83
  • The true scholar grudges every opportunity of action passed, by, as a loss of power.

    Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1106, Delphi Classics
  • The preamble of thought, the transition through which it passes from the unconscious to the conscious, is action. Only so much do I know, as I have lived. Instantly we know whose words are loaded with life, and whose not.

    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.496
  • The one thing in the world, of value, is the active soul

    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.57, Library of America
  • Of course, he who has put forth his total strength in fit actions, has the richest return of wisdom.

    Return   Action   Fit  
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Emerson's Essays: Top Essays”, p.17, 谷月社
  • Give me insight into today and you may have the antique and future worlds.

    Time   Future   Giving  
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1113, Delphi Classics
  • Books are the best type of the influence of the past.

    Book   Past   Lovers  
  • Inaction is cowardice, but there can be no scholar without the heroic mind.

    Mind   Heroic   Cowardice  
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Emerson's Essays: Top Essays”, p.16, 谷月社
  • I feel now, that Arabia could easily be evangelized within the next thirty years if it were not for the wicked selfishness of Christians.

  • Books are the best of things, well used; abused, among the worst...They are for nothing but to inspire.

    Book   Inspire   Used  
    Ralph Waldo Emerson, Charles Howell Foster (1939). “Emerson's theory of poetry”
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