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“The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization”: Famous Quotes by Writer Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson is a well-known American thinker, writer and poet. Ralph Waldo Emerson was born in Massachusetts on May 25, 1803. Ralph Waldo Emerson died in 1882.

Emerson is famous as one thought-leader of the American Transcendentalist movement.

Emerson was a well-regarded writer and is still often quoted in speeches and in print. We have arranged several of his more famous quotes for your pleasure.

And Now A collection of Quotations by Ralph Waldo Emerson …

Children are all foreigners.

The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.

I hate quotations.

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.

Always do what you are afraid to do.

For nonconformity the world whips you with its displeasure.

What can we see, read, acquire, but ourselves. Take the book, my friend, and read your eyes out, you will never find there what I find.

Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly, until he know that every day is Doomsday.

You must pay for conformity. All goes well as long as you run with conformists. But you, who are honest men in other particulars, know that there is alive somewhere a man whose honesty reaches to this point also, that he shall not kneel to false gods, and, on the day when you meet him, you sink into the class of counterfeits.

Those who cannot tell what they desire or expect, still sigh and struggle with indefinite thoughts and vast wishes.

Solitude, the safeguard of mediocrity.

I look on that man as happy, who, when there is question of success, looks into his work for a reply.

The key to every man is his thought. Sturdy and defying though he look, he has a helm which he obeys, which is the idea after which all his facts are classified. He can only be reformed by showing him a new idea which commands his own.

It is not length of life, but depth of life.

The wise man in the storm prays God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear.

One man’s justice is another’s injustice one man’s beauty another’s ugliness one man’s wisdom another’s folly.

The angels are so enamoured of the language that is spoken in heaven, that they will not distort their lips with the hissing and unmusical dialects of men, but speak their own, whether there be any who understand it or not.

Don’t be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

The god of the cannibals will be a cannibal, of the crusaders a crusader, and of the merchants a merchant.

Thought is the seed of action.

Love and you shall be loved.

The man is only half himself, the other half is his expression.

The reason why all men honor love is because it looks up, and not down aspires and not despairs.

Men’s actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

Universities are of course hostile to geniuses, which, seeing and using ways of their own, discredit the routine as churches and monasteries persecute youthful saints.

Character is higher than intellect… A great soul will be strong to live, as well as to think.

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