13 Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes on Change

Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes on change

11. The two parties which divide the State, the party of Conservatism and that of Innovation are very old, and have disputed the possession of the world ever since it was made ... Now one, now the other gets the day, and still the fight renews itself as if for the first time, under new names and hot personalities ... Innovation is the salient energy; Conservatism the pause on the last movement.

27. I regard it as the irresistible effect of the Copernican astronomy to have made the theological scheme of redemption absolutely incredible

54. There are always two parties, the party of the past and the party of the Future; the Establishment and the Movement...

75. Time dissipates to shining ether the solid angularity of facts.

78. Nature is a mutable cloud, which is always and never the same.

100. Life only avails, not the having lived. Power ceases in the instant of repose; it resides in the moment of transition from a past to a new state, in the shooting of the gulf, in the darting to an aim

106. Travelling is a fool's paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places. At home I dream that at Naples, at Rome, I can be intoxicated with beauty, and lose my sadness. I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea, and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the stern fact, the sad self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from. I seek the Vatican, and the palaces. I affect to be intoxicated with sights and suggestions, but I am not intoxicated. My giant goes with me wherever I go.

131. Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.

178. By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag to April's breeze unfurled, Here once the embattled farmers stood, And fired the shot heard round the world.

216. To-day unbind the captive, So only are ye unbound; Lift up a people from the dust, Trump of their rescue, sound!

228. Daughters of Time, the hypocritic Days, Muffled and dumb like barefoot dervishes, And marching single in an endless file, Bring diadems and fagots in their hands.

259. Alcohol, hashish, prussic acid, strychnine are weak dilutions. The surest poison is time.

308. Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind and when the same thought occurs in another man, it is the key to that era.