Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

Happy is the hearing man;

unhappy the speaking man.

Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.

The martyr cannot be dishonored.

Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame;

every prison a more illustrious abode.

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

The highest revelation is that God is in every man.

Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow storm.

We wake from one dream into another dream.

Nothing external to you has any power over you.

The desire of gold is not for gold.

It is for the means of freedom and benefit.

There are other measures of self

respect for a man,

than the number of clean shirts he puts on every day.

Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.

What we seek we shall find;

what we flee from flees from us.

Every man is a consumer,

and ought to be a producer.

He is by constitution expensive,

and needs to be rich.

Truth is beautiful,

without doubt;

but so are lies.

There is no chance and anarchy in the universe.

All is system and gradation.

Every god is there sitting in his sphere.

I hate the giving of the hand

unless the whole man accompanies it.

Why need I volumes,

if one word suffice?

Man is priest,

and scholar,

and statesman,

and producer,

and soldier.

Men's actions are too strong for them.

Show me a man who has acted,

and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

We are wiser than we know.