Ralph Waldo Emerson Elements Quotations

It is the last lesson of modern science, that the highest simplicity of structure is produced, not by few elements, but by the highest complexity.

Christianity taught the capacity, the element, to love the All-perfect without a stingy bargain for personal happiness. It taught that to love Him was happiness;--to love Him in others' virtues.

Life is a search after power; and this is an element with which the world is so saturated,-there is no chink or crevice in which it is not lodged,-that no honest seeking goes unrewarded.

Why should we fear to be crushed by savage elements, we who are made up of the same elements?

Women, more than all, are the element and kingdom of illusion. Being fascinated, they fascinate.

All high beauty has a moral element in it.

It is much better to learn the elements of geology, of botany, or ornithology and astronomy by word of mouth from a companion than dully from a book.

Often a certain abdication of prudence and foresight is an element of success.