Ralph Waldo Emerson Facts Quotations

A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts.

Cause and effect are two sides of one fact.

Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.

I cannot marry the facts of William Shakespeare to his verse: Other men had led lives in some sort of keeping with their thought, but this man is in wide contrast.

For every seeing soul, there are two absorbing facts - I, and the abyss.

No facts to me are sacred; none are profane.

So in accepting the leading of the sentiments, it is not what we believe concerning the immortality of the soul, or the like, but the universal impulse to believe, that is the material circumstance, and is the principal fact in this history of the globe.

All public facts are to be individualized, all private facts are to be generalized.

The idealism of Berkeley is only a crude statement of the idealism of Jesus, and that again is a crude statement of the fact thatall nature is the rapid efflux of goodness executing and organizing itself.

Beside all the small reasons we assign, there is a great reason for the existence of every extant fact; a reason which lies grandand immovable, often unsuspected behind it in silence.

All the facts of nature are nouns of the intellect, and make the grammar of the eternal language. Every word has a double, trebleor centuple use and meaning.

The primary wisdom is intuition. In that deep force, the last fact behind which analysis cannot go, all things find their origin.

The orator is thereby an orator that keeps his feet ever on a fact.

Other world? There is no other world; here or nowhere is the whole fact.

No picture of life can have any veracity that does not admit the odious facts. A man's power is hooped in by a necessity, which, by many experiments, he touches on every side, until he learns its arc.

A believer, a mind whose faith is consciousness, is never disturbed because other persons do not yet see the fact which he sees.

Every word which is used to express a moral or intellectual fact, if traced to its root, is found to be borrowed from some material appearance.

There is always a certain meanness in the argument of conservatism, joined with a certain superiority in its fact.

It is the fault of our rhetoric that we cannot strongly state one fact without seeming to belie some other.

A little fact is worth a whole limbo of dreams.

Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact. Every appearance in nature corresponds to some state of the mind, and that state of the mind can only be described by presenting that natural appearance as its picture.

By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. In fact, it is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others as it is to invent.

If a man will kick a fact out of the window, when he comes back he finds it again in the chimney corner.

The chief value of the new fact is to enhance the great and constant fact of life.

Time dissipates to shining ether the solid angularity of facts.

Not for nothing one face, one character, one fact makes much impression on him, and another none.

Every fact is related on one side to sensation, and, on the other, to morals. The game of thought is, on the appearance of one of these two sides, to find the other: given the upper, to find the under side.

No facts are to me sacred; none are profane; I simply experiment, an endless seeker, with no past at my back.