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Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes about Perception

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Perception is a mirror not a fact. And what I look on is my state of mind, reflected outward.

Perception is a mirror not a fact. And what I look on is my state of mind, reflected outward.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Mirrors, Perception, Mind

The cure for false theology is motherwit. Forget your books and traditions, and obey your moral perceptions at this hour.

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

The secret of the illusoriness is in the necessity of a succession of moods or objects. Gladly we would anchor, but the anchorageis quicksand.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Change, Anchors, Perception
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1993). “Self-reliance, and Other Essays”, p.88, Courier Corporation

Since everything in nature answers to a moral power, if any phenomenon remains brute and dark, it is that the corresponding faculty in the observer is not yet active.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Dark, Power, Perception
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco, Joel Myerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.208, Harvard University Press

Do you love me? Means at last do you see the same truth I see? If you do, we are happy together; but when presently one of us passes into the perception of a new truth, we are divorced and the force of all nature cannot hold us to each other.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Mean, Perception, Together
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Albert J. Von Frank (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Major Poetry”, p.80, Harvard University Press

How can we speak of the action of the mind under any divisions, as of its knowledge, of its ethics, of its works, and so forth, since it melts will into perception, knowledge into act? Each becomes the other. Itself alone is.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Perception, Mind, Division
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1393, Delphi Classics

The great make its feel, first of all, the indifference of circumstances. They call into activity the higher perceptions, and subdue the low habits of comfort and luxury; but the higher perceptions find their objects everywhere; only the low habits need palaces and banquets.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Greatness, Luxury, Perception
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1912). “Society and solitude”

Do what you know and perception is converted into character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Character, Perception, Thrive
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.234

No one can read the history of astronomy without perceiving that Copernicus, Newton, Laplace, are not new men, or a new kind of men, but that Thales, Anaximenes, Hipparchus, Empodocles, Aristorchus, Pythagorus, Oenipodes, had anticipated them.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men, History, Perception
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1982). “Emerson: Selected Essays”, p.350, Penguin

Defect in manners is usually the defect of fine perceptions. Elegance comes of no breeding, but of birth.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Perception, Birth, Elegance

Our life is not so much threatened as our perception. Ghostlike we glide through nature, and should not know our place again.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Perception, Life Is, Should
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.471, Library of America

The perception of the comic is a tie of sympathy with other men.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men, Ties, Perception
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims”, p.85, Harvard University Press

We imperatively require a perception of and a homage to beauty in our companions. Other virtues are in request in the field and workyard, but a certain degree of taste is not to be spared in those we sit with.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Perception, Degrees, Taste
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Emerson's Essays: Top Essays”, p.88, 谷月社

Who heeds the waste abyss of possibility? The ocean is everywhere the same, but it has no character until seen with the shore or the ship.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ocean, Character, Perception
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.226

My life is superficial, takes no root in the deep world; I ask, When shall I die, and be relieved of the responsibility of seeinga Universe which I do not use? I wish to exchange this flash-of-lightning faith for continuous daylight, this fever-glow for a benign climate.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Responsibility, Roots, Perception
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.485

No man has a right perception of any truth, who has not been reacted on by it, so as to be ready to be its martyr.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Truth, Men, Perception
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.86, Penguin

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

The senses interfere everywhere, and mix their own structure with all they report of.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Perception, Structure, Senses
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.484

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