Quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson

Love is like wildflowers; it's often found in the most unlikely places.

I metodi possono essere un milione e più, ma i principi sono pochi. L'uomo che afferra i principi può scegliere con successo i suoi metodi. L'uomo che prova i metodi, ignorando i principi, avrà sicuramente dei problemi.

The crowds and centuries of books are only commentary and elucidation, echoes and weakeners of those few great voices of Time.

What is common to them all,—that perfectness and harmony, is beauty.

Infancy is the perpetual Messiah, which comes into the arms of fallen men, and pleads with them to return to paradise.

nature is not slow to equip us in the prison-uniform of the party to which we adhere. We come to wear one cut of face and figure, and acquire by degrees the gentlest asinine expression.

Our strength grows out of our weakness

The wise man in the storm prays to God not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear. It is the storm within which endangers him, not the storm without.

Nature, as we know her, is no saint…. She comes eating and drinking and sinning.

Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.

The world is upheld by the veracity of good men: they make the earth wholesome. They who lived with them found life glad and nutritious. Life is sweet and tolerable only in our belief in such society.

genius since the world began; from the era of the Egyptians and

We say the heart to express emotion, the head to denote thought;

That which each can do best, none but his Maker can teach him

When nature awakens our wonder and curiosity, we become scholars. This is the beginning of education. Through our senses, nature impresses herself on our minds. Her splendors shine forth everywhere we turn—from the largest masses to the tiniest particles. Then our mind begins to classify all that we survey, turning nature into organized knowledge.

Even these feasts have their surfeit. Our delight in reason degenerates into idolatry of the herald.

You must get your living by loving.

We are magnets...We have keys to all doors. We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities...

A tragédia está nos olhos de quem a observa, e não no coração de quem a sofre

El viaje menos complicado del mejor barco velero, está compuesto de un conjunto de zigzags. Pero si miras la línea de su trayectoria desde una distancia lo suficientemente lejana, notarás que, en general, siempre se ha mantenido en la dirección dominante del destino. Tu acción genuina se explicará por sí misma, y explicará tus otras acciones genuinas.

IT IS NATURAL TO BELIEVE in great men. If the companions of our childhood should turn out to be heroes, and their condition regal, it would not surprise us. All mythology opens with demigods, and the circumstance is high and poetic; that is, their genius is paramount. In the legends of the Gautama, the first men ate the earth, and found it deliciously sweet.

I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new. Shall I not call God the beautiful, who daily showeth himself so to me in his gifts?

Standing on the bare ground,--my head bathed by the blithe air and uplifted into infinite space

Cada hombre auténtico es una causa, un país, y una era.