Quote #1
The sublime is excited in me by the great stoical doctrine, Obey thyself.
More from Ralph Waldo Emerson
- The man who renounces himself, comes to himself.
- None believeth in the soul of man, but only in some man or person old and departed.
- The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity. The inventor did it because it was natural to him, and so in him it has a charm. In the …
- He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and hi…
- Place yourself in the middle of the stream of power and wisdom which animates all whom it floats, and you are without effort impelled to tr…
- I fancy I need more than another to speak (rather than write), with such a formidable tendency to the lapidary style. I build my house of b…
- Yet a man may love a paradox, without losing either his wit or his honesty.
- Literature is the effort of man to indemnify himself for the wrongs of his condition.