Quotes by Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Intellect annuls fate. So far as a man thinks, he is free. >>

All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not see >>

Those who live to the future must always appear selfish to those who l >>

Quotations about Action

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked >>

Talk doesn't cook rice. >>

Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot fi >>

The German intellect wants the French sprightliness, the fine practical understanding of the English, and the American adventure; but it has a certain probity, which never rests in a superficial performance, but asks steadily, To what end? A German public asks for a controlling sincerity.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo