Heaven always bears some proportion to earth. The god of the cannibal will be a cannibal, of the crusades a crusader, and of the merchants a merchant.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Far or forgot to me is near Shadow and sunlight are the same The vanished gods to me appear and one to me are shame and fame.They reckon ill who leave me ou tWhen me they fly, I am the wingsI am the doubter and the doubt,And I the hymn the Brahmin sings.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Real friendship is shown in times of trouble prosperity is full of friends.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
This world we live in is but thickened light.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you can not find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it Dogen Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul unbelief, denying them.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love and you shall be loved.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every man I meet is in some way my superior.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every burned book or house enlightens the world every suppressed or expunged word reverberates through the earth from side to side.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind.
Ralph Waldo Emerson