Ralph Waldo Emerson Arms Quotations

Ideas must work through the brains and arms of good and brave men, or they are no better than dreams

The babe in arms is a channel through which the energies we call fate, love, and reason visibly stream.

Sleep takes off the costume of circumstance, arms us with terrible freedom, so that every will rushes to a deed.

We sometimes observe that spoiled children contract a habit of annoying quite wantonly those who have charge of them, and seem tomeasure their own sense of well-being, not by what they do, but by the degree of reaction they can cause. It is vain to get rid of them by not minding them: if purring and humming is not noticed, they squeal and screech; then if you chide and console them, they find the experiment succeeds, and they begin again. The child will sit in your arms contented if you do nothing. If you take a book and read, he commences hostile operations.

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.

I can believe a miracle because I can raise my own arm. I can believe a miracle because I can remember. I can believe it because I can speak and be understood by you.

What is the imagination? Only an arm or weapon of the interior energy; only the precursor of the reason.