Ralph Waldo Emerson Symbols Quotations

Things admit of being used as symbols, because nature is a symbol, in the whole, and in every part.

Nature is the symbol of Spirit.

A good symbol is the best argument, and is a missionary to persuade thousands.

Condense some daily experience into a glowing symbol and an audience is electrified.

We are symbols, and inhabit symbols.

Mysticism is the mistake of an accidental and individual symbol for an universal one.