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Our reliance on the physician is a kind of despair of ourselves.

Our reliance on the physician is a kind of despair of ourselves.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Doctors, Despair, Physicians
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.469

The stars awaken a certain reverence, because though always present, they are inaccessible.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Stars, Astronomy, Certain
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.9, Library of America

The best conversation is rare. Society seems to have agreed to treat fictions as realities, and realities as fictions; and the simple lover of truth, especially if on very high grounds, as a religious or intellectual seeker, finds himself a stranger and alien.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Religious, Simple, Reality
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.122, Harvard University Press

In our large cities, the population is godless, materialized,--no bond, no fellow-feeling, no enthusiasm. These are not men, but hungers, thirsts, fevers, and appetites walking. How is it people manage to live on,--so aimless as they are? After their peppercorn aims are gained, it seems as if the lime in their bones alone held them together, and not any worthy purpose.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men, Cities, People
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.187, Graphic Arts Books

If the individuals who compose the purest circles of aristocracy in Europe, the guarded blood of centuries, should pass in review,in such manner as that we could, at leisure, and critically inspect their behavior, we might find no gentleman, and no lady; for, although excellent specimens of courtesy and high-breeding would gratify us in the assemblage, in the particulars, we should detect offence. Because, elegance comes of no breeding, but of birth.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Blood, Europe, Circles
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1476, Delphi Classics

Every man is not so much a workman in the world as he is a suggestion of that he should be. Men walk as prophecies of the next age.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men, Growth, Age
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.69, Penguin

Every materialist will be an idealist; but an idealist can never go backward to be a materialist.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Idealism, Idealist
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.89, Penguin

A good indignation makes an excellent speech.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Speech, Excellent, Indignation
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims”, p.65, Harvard University Press

All ages of belief have been great; all of unbelief have been mean.

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

The multitude of false churches accredits the true religion.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Church, True Religion, Multitudes
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2016). “Essays”, p.133, Open Road Media

The test of civilization is the power of drawing the most benefit out of cities.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Civilization, Cities, Drawing
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1843-1871”, p.372, University of Georgia Press

A system-grinder hates the truth.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Hate, Grinder
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Stephen E. Whicher (1959). “The Early Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.327, Harvard University Press

Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. It undergoes continual changes: it is barbarous, it is civilized, it is rich, it is scientific; but this change is not amelioration. For every thing that is given, something else is taken. Society acquires new arts and loses old instincts.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Art, Taken, Gains
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Self-Reliance and Other Essays”, p.36, Courier Corporation

You've got to be taught to be afraid Of people whose eyes are oddly made And people whose skin is a different shade.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Eye, People, Skins

Life has a way of demanding that you live it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Way

I have never met a man who was not my superior in some particular.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men, Mets, Particular

Give me truths for I am weary of the surfaces.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Giving, Surface, Weary
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1960). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks: 1841-1843”, p.435, Harvard University Press

There is a principle which is the basis of things, which all speech aims to say, and all action to evolve, a simple, quiet, undescribed, undescribable presence, dwelling very peacefully in us, our rightful lord: we are not to do, but to let do; not to work, but to be worked upon.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Simple, Dwelling, Principles
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.399

To the body and mind which have been cramped by noxious work or company, nature is medicinal and restores their tone.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature, Mind, Body
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.13, Harvard University Press

So in accepting the leading of the sentiments, it is not what we believe concerning the immortality of the soul, or the like, but the universal impulse to believe, that is the material circumstance, and is the principal fact in this history of the globe.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Believe, Soul, Facts
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Self-Reliance, the Over-Soul, and Other Essays”, p.102, Coyote Canyon Press

I find it more credible, since it is anterior information, that one man should know heaven, as the Chinese say, than that so many men should know the world.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men, Heaven, Chinese
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.215

A right rule for a club would be,-Admit no man whose presence excludes any one topic.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men, Would Be, Clubs
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2495, Delphi Classics

The only compensation which war offers for its manifold mischiefs, is in the great personal qualities to which it gives scope and occasion.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
War, Personal Qualities, Giving
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1911). “Works: English traits, Conduct of life”

I take this evanescence and lubricity of all objects, which lets them slip through our fingers then when we clutch hardest, to be the most unhandsome part of our condition.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Evanescence, Fingers, Hardest
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.473, Library of America

I find it a great and fatal difference whether I court the Muse, or the Muse courts me. That is the ugly disparity between age and youth.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Differences, Age, Ugly
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2014). “The Heart of Emerson's Journals”, p.317, Courier Corporation

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