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Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes about Imagination

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The quality of the imagination is to flow and not to freeze.

The quality of the imagination is to flow and not to freeze.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Imagination, Quality, Flow
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2014). “The Portable Emerson”, p.170, Penguin

That which dominates our imagination and our thoughts will determine our life and character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Character, Imagination, Coaching

The imagination and the senses cannot be gratified at the same time.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Time, Imagination, Fantasy

We live by our imagination, our admirations, and our sentiments.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Imagination, Admiration, Live By

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

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

Science does not know its debt to imagination.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Science, Imagination, Doe
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims”, p.5, Harvard University Press

Nothing can be colder than his head, when the lightnings of his imagination are playing in the sky.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Plato, Sky, Imagination
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.33

Our desires presage the capacities within us; they are harbingers of what we shall be able to accomplish. What we can do and want to do is projected in our imagination, quite outside ourselves, and into the future. We are attracted to what is already ours in secret. Thus passionate anticipation transforms what is indeed possible into dreamt-for reality.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Future, Reality, Imagination

Use makes a better soldier than the most urgent considerations of duty,--familiarity with danger enabling him to estimate the danger. He sees how much is the risk, and is not afflicted with imagination; knows practically Marshal Saxe's rule, that every soldier killed costs the enemy his weight in lead.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
War, Imagination, Soldier
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.132, Harvard University Press

Imagination is not a talent of some men but is the health of every man.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Art, Men, Imagination
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson - Poetry and Imagination”, p.30, Editora Dracaena

Imagination is a very high sort of seeing.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Leadership, Imagination, Seeing
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.194, Penguin

It behooves us to be careful what we worship, for what we are worshipping we are becoming.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Imagination, Becoming, Worship

There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrate to some stroke of the imagination.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life, Memorable, Imagination
"The Conduct of Life".

Let me admonish you, first of all, to go alone; to refuse the good models, even those which are sacred in the imagination of men, and dare to love God without mediator or veil.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men, Imagination, Veils
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.90, Harvard University Press

The statue is then beautiful when it begins to be incomprehensible, when it is passing out of criticism, and can no longer be defined by compass and measuring-wand, but demands an active imagination to go with it, and to say what it is in the act of doing.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Beautiful, Imagination, Criticism
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.102, Courier Corporation

There comes a period of the imagination to each--a later youth--the power of beauty, the power of looks, of poetry.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Imagination, Looks, Youth

Whatever appeals to the imagination, by transcending the ordinary limits of human ability, wonderfully encourages and liberates us.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Imagination, Ordinary, Limits
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.132

The history of reform is always identical; it is the comparison of the idea with the fact. Our modes of living are not agreeable to our imagination. We suspect they are unworthy. We arraign our daily employments.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ideas, Imagination, Employment
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1180, Delphi Classics

There is no better way to exercise the imagination than the study of the law.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Exercise, Law, Imagination

What is the imagination? Only an arm or weapon of the interior energy; only the precursor of the reason.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Imagination, Energy, Arms
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.108, Harvard University Press

Science does not know its debt to imagination. Goethe did not believe that a great naturalist could exist without this faculty.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Believe, Imagination, Doe
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2539, Delphi Classics

Imagination is a very high sort of seeing, which does not come by study, but by the intellect being where and what it sees, by sharing the path, or circuits of things through forms, and so making them translucid to others.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Imagination, Path, Doe
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Self-Reliance and Other Essays”, p.75, Courier Corporation

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