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Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes about Beauty

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A beautiful woman is a picture which drives all beholders nobly mad.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1410, Delphi Classics

If eyes were made for seeing, then beauty is its own excuse for being.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Richard Lee Grossman (2005). “A Year with Emerson: A Daybook”, p.75, David R. Godine Publisher

Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.104, Penguin

Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Stephen E. Whicher (1959). “The Early Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.102, Harvard University Press

Beauty is the virtue of the body as virtue is the beauty of the soul

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.3176, Delphi Classics

It does not hurt weak eyes to look into beautiful eyes never so long.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.115, Courier Corporation

Beauty rests on necessities.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1875). “Culture, Behavior, Beauty”, p.95

Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.535, Library of America

There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco, Joel Myerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.287, Harvard University Press

Accuracy is essential to beauty.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.351, Modern Library

All high beauty has a moral element in it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1875). “Culture, Behavior, Beauty”, p.107

We fly to beauty as an asylum from the terrors of finite nature.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1972). “Early Lectures: 1838-1842”, p.117, Harvard University Press

Things are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but, until they speak to the imagination, not yet beautiful.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.478, Рипол Классик

Beauty is the pilot of the young soul.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1875). “Culture, Behavior, Beauty”, p.90

To a dull mind all of nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world burns and sparkles with light.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Richard Lee Grossman (2005). “A Year with Emerson: A Daybook”, p.107, David R. Godine Publisher

Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.115, Courier Corporation

Evermore in the world is this marvelous balance of beauty and disgust, magnificence and rats.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.1084, Library of America

Beauty is the mark God sets on virtue. Every natural action is graceful; every heroic act is also decent, and causes the place and the bystanders to shine.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt McLaughlin (2010). “The Laws of Nature: Excerpts from the Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.21, North Atlantic Books