10 Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes on Perspective

Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes on perspective

24. What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have yet to be discovered.

26. All the thoughts of a turtle are turtles, and of rabbits, rabbits.

35. Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.

37. Children are all foreigners.

132. One man's justice is another's injustice; one man's beauty another's ugliness; one man's wisdom another's folly.

150. Do you see that kitten chasing so prettily her own tail? If you could look with her eyes, you might see her surrounded with hundreds of figures performing complex dramas, with tragic and comic issues, long conversations, many characters, many ups and downs of fate, - and meantime it is only puss and her tail. How long before our masquerade will end its noise of tambourines, laughter, and shouting, and we shall find it was a solitary performance?

186. Keep cool: it will be all one a hundred years hence.

210. If I could put my hand on the north star, would it be as beautiful? The sea is lovely, but when we bathe in it, the beauty forsakes all the near water. For the imagination and senses cannot be gratified at the same time.

234. 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.

293. It is an amiable illusion, which the shape of our planet prompts, that every man is at the top of the world.