Ralph Waldo Emerson Moral Quotations

The intuition of the moral sentiment is an insight of the perfection of the laws of the soul. These laws execute themselves. They are out of time, out of space, and not subject to circumstance.

All things are moral; and in their boundless changes have an unceasing reference to spiritual nature.

There is an intimate interdependence of intellect and morals.

Character repudiates intellect, yet excites it; and character passes into thought, is published so, and then is ashamed before newflashes of moral worth.

I consider theology to be the rhetoric of morals.

The cure for false theology is motherwit. Forget your books and traditions, and obey your moral perceptions at this hour.

All high beauty has a moral element in it.

People are very inclined to set moral standards for others.

Preaching is the expression of moral sentiments applied to the duties of life.