7 Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes on Mind

Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes on mind

20. The key to the period appeared to be that the mind had become aware of itself ... The young men were born with knives in their brain, a tendency to introversion, self-dissection, anatomizing of motives.

30. To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.

66. Character is higher than intellect...A great soul will be strong to live, as well as strong to think.

69. We will walk on our own feet; we will work with our own hands; we will speak our own minds...A nation of men will for the first time exist, because each believes himself inspired by the Divine Soul which also inspires all men.

71. The ancestor of every action is a thought.

81. There is one mind common to all individual men. Every man is an inlet to the same and to all of the same. He that is once admitted to the right of reason is made a freeman of the whole estate. What Plato has thought, he may think; what a saint has felt, he may feel; what at any time has befallen any man, he can understand. Who hath access to this universal mind is a party to all that is or can be done, for this is the only and sovereign agent.

260. The imagination is not a talent of some men but is the health of every man.