Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

“Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins.”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Friendship

topic:loneliness

“if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars.”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature

topic:loneliness stars

“When we are young, we spend much time and pains in filling our note-books with all definitions of Religion, Love, Poetry, Politics, Art, in the hope that, in the course of a few years, we shall have condensed into our encyclopaedia the net value...”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Intellect

topic:learning youth experience

“We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state.”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Love

“Virtues are, in the popular estimate, rather the exception than the rule.”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance

topic:virtue

“A man is a god in ruins.”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature

“the ancestor of every action is a thought.”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Spiritual Laws

topic:action thought

“A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance

topic:foolishness mind philosophy

“Travelling is a fool's paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places.”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance

topic:foolishness travel

“Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance

topic:mind

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