Quotes About Emerson

What a searching preacher of self-command is the varying phenomenon of health.

When I went to school at Emerson, I was completely charmed living there and loved the architecture of the Back Bay.

Nature doesn't rhyme her children,' I said, happy to remember the line of Emerson's

Life is comic or pitiful as soon as the high ends of being fade out of sight, and man becomes near-sighted, and can only attend towhat addresses the senses.

Things have their laws as well as men, and things refuse to be trifled with.

Intellectual tasting of life will not supersede muscular activity. If a man should consider the nicety of the passage of a piece of bread down his throat, he would starve.

Man is the broken giant, and in all his weakness both his body and his mind are invigorated by habits of conversation with nature.

[Emerson] was interested not in the bookworm, not even in the thinker, only in Man Thinking.

Our life is an apprenticeship to the truth that around every circle another can be drawn; that there is no end in nature, but every end is a beginning, and under every deep a lower deep opens.

The happiest man is he who learns from nature the lesson of worship

Nature will not be Buddhist: she resents generalizing, and insults the philosopher in every moment with a million fresh particulars.

Nature is too thin a screen the glory of the omnipresent God bursts through everywhere.

The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight with a verse given in a happy quotation than in the poem.

God is our name for the last generalization to which we can arrive.

The antidote to this abuse of formal Government, is, the influence of private character, the growth of the Individual.

When I attended Emerson College in Boston, it was confined to the Back Bay, but now it has taken over a lot of Boston, which is great.

Meaning was not a pitch but an interval. It sprang from the depth of disjunction, the distance between one circuit's center and the edge of another. Representation caught the sign napping, with its semantic pants down. Sense lay in metaphor's embarrassment at having two takes on the same thing. For the first time, I understand Emerson's saying about the use of life being to learn metonymy. Life *was* metonymy, or at least stood for it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882), the great American essayist, said "nothing great is ever achieved without enthusiasm." What a deconstructed culture lacks, because of its deep cynicism and pessimism about reality, is a basic confidence and enthusiasm that is necessary to start almost anything.

A vivid thought brings the power to paint it; and in proportion to the depth of its source is the force of its projection.

We know that madness belongs to love,--what power to paint a vile object in hues of heaven.

You can learn more by going to the opera than you ever can by reading Emerson. Like that there are two sexes.

Cavanaugh's knife, Ernest Emerson's CQC-7W. The hook at the top opens the blade as the knife is drawn from a pocket. (Emersonknives.com)

Law rules throughout existence, a Law which is not intelligent, but Intelligence.

I've read seventeen novels and bushels of poetry-- really necessary novels like Vanity Fair and Richard Feverel and Alice in Wonderland. Also Emerson's Essays and Lockhart's Life of Scott and the first volume of Gibbon's Roman Empire and half of Benvenuto Cellini's Life--wasn't he entertaining? He used to saunter out and casually kill a man before breakfast.