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In science we have to consider two things: power and circumstance.

In science we have to consider two things: power and circumstance.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Science, Two, Circumstances
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco, Joel Myerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.410, Harvard University Press

Intellect is void of affection and sees an object as it stands in the light of science, cool and disengaged. The intellect goes out of the individual, floats over its own personality, and regards it as a fact, and not as I and mine.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Science, Light, Personality
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.99, Graphic Arts Books

Science always goes abreast with the just elevation of the man, keeping step with religion and metaphysics; or, the state of science is an index of our self-knowledge.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Science, Men, Self
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco, Joel Myerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.208, Harvard University Press

Science corrects the old creeds, sweeps away, with every new perception, our infantile catechisms, and necessitates a faith commensurate with the grander orbits and universal laws which it discloses yet it does not surprise the moral sentiment that was older and awaited expectant these larger insights.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Science, Law, Perception
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1875). “Letters and Social Aims”, p.183

Science finds it methods.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Science, Method, Accounts

Science, Nature,-O, I've yearned to open some page.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature, Science, Pages
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1911). “Lectures and biographical sketches”

The Good Spirit never cared for the colleges, and though all men and boys were now drilled in Greek, Latin, and Mathematics, it had quite left these shells high on the beach, and was creating and feeding other matters [science] at other ends of the world.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Beach, Latin, Science

There is one mind common to all individual men

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men, Mind, Common
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1850). “Essays”, p.3

Let there be worse cotton and better men.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Peace, Men, Cotton
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Ernest Spiller, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Joseph Slater, Jean Ferguson Carr (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature, addresses, and lectures”, p.121, Harvard University Press

THE POET A moody child and wildly wise Pursued the game with joyful eyes, Which chose, like meteors, their way, And rived the dark with private ray: They overleapt the horizon's edge, Searched with Apollo's privilege; Through man, and woman, and sea, and star, Saw the dance of nature forward far; Through worlds, and races, and terms, and times, Saw musical order, and pairing rhymes. Olympian bards who sung Divine ideas below, Which always find us young, And always keep us so.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wise, Stars, Children
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.112, Graphic Arts Books

As soon as a child has left the room his strewn toys become affecting.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Children, Rooms, Toys
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1960). “The Journals”

We must set up a strong present tense against all rumors of wrath, past and to come.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Strong, Past, Wrath

The book, the college, the school of art, the institution of any kind, stop with some past utterance of genius. . . . They look backward and not forward. But genius looks forward: the eyes of man are set in his forehead, not in his hindhead: man hopes: genius creates. Whatever talents may be, if the man create not, the pure efflux of the Deity is not his; - cinders and smoke there may be, but not yet flame.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Art, Book, School
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Essays”, p.10, Xist Publishing

Consider what you have in the smallest well-chosen library-a company of the wisest and wittiest men which can be plucked out of all civilized countries in a thousand years. The men themselves were then hidden and inaccessible. They were solitary, impatient of interruption, and fenced by etiquette. But now they are immortal, and the thought they did not reveal, even to their bosom friends, is here written out in transparent words of light to us, who are strangers of another age.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friendship, Country, Men

It is curious that Christianity, which is idealism, is sturdily defended by the brokers, and steadily attacked by the idealists.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Christian, Curious, Idealism
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2014). “The Heart of Emerson's Journals”, p.263, Courier Corporation

How beautiful to have the church always open, so that every tired wayfaring man may come in and be soothed by all that art can suggest of a better world when he is weary with this.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Beautiful, Art, Tired
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1964). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.117, Harvard University Press

The idea of God ends in a paltry Methodist meeting-house.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ideas, House, Ends
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1975). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks: 1848-1851”, p.286, Harvard University Press

No man can be criticised but by a greater than he. Do not, then, read the reviews.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men, Criticism, Reviews
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1960). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks: 1841-1843”, p.250, Harvard University Press

Away with this hurrah of masses, and let us have the considerate vote of single men.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men, Crowds, Vote
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.449

Wait, and thy soul shall speak.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Waiting, Soul, Speak
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.98

If we meet no gods, it is because we harbor none. If there is grandeur in you, you will find grandeur in porters and sweeps.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Divinity, Harbors, Grandeur
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2004). “A Dream Too Wild: Emerson Meditations for Every Day of the Year”, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

The spirit of the world, the great calm presence of the creator, comes not forth to the sorceries of opium or of wine.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wine, Sorcery, World
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.195, Penguin

It is in bad taste," is the most formidable word an Englishman can pronounce.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Taste, Formidable, Englishmen
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “English traits”, p.115

Everything is prospective, and man is to live hereafter. That the world is for his education is the only sane solution of the enigma.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Education, Men, World
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2676, Delphi Classics

Meek young men grow up in colleges and believe it is their duty to accept the views which books have given, and grow up slaves.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Education, Growing Up, Book
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edward Waldo Emerson, Waldo Emerson Forbes (1910). “Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1820-1872 [1876] Ed”

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