7 Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes on Belief

Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes on belief

3. None believeth in the soul of man, but only in some man or person old and departed.

32. The Religion that is afraid of science dishonours God and commits suicide. It acknowledges that it is not equal to the whole of truth, that it legislates, tyrannizes over a village of God's empires but is not the immutable universal law. Every influx of atheism, of skepticism is thus made useful as a mercury pill assaulting and removing a diseased religion and making way for truth.

48. The blazing evidence of immortality is our dissatisfaction with any other solution.

50. Undoubtedly we have no questions to ask which are unanswerable. We must trust the perfection of the creation so far, as to believe that whatever curiosity the order of things has awakened in our minds, the order of things can satisfy. Every man's condition is a solution in hieroglyphic to those inquiries he would put. He acts it as life, before he apprehends it as truth.

116. Men suffer all their life long, under the foolish superstition that they can be cheated. But it is as impossible for a man to be cheated by any one but himself, as for a thing to be and not to be at the same time.

200. We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.

292. If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.