Philosophy Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“It is only when the mind and character slumber that the dress can be seen.”

“To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom.”

“Every word was once a poem.”

“There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant.”

“Why covet a knowledge of new facts? Day and night, house and garden, a few books, a few actions, serve us as well as would all trades and all spectacles. We are far from having exhausted the significance of the few symbols we use. We can come to use them yet with a terrible simplicity.”

“Imagination is not a talent of some men but is the health of every man.”

“...when dogma enters the brain, all intellectual activity ceases.”

“If we wanted to construct a basic philosophical attitude from these scientific utterances of”

“As long as your ideas of what's possible are limited by what's actual, no other idea has a chance.”

“I am strangely tired, not from having talked so much but at the mere thought of what I still have to say”

“Sooner or later, at some point in your life, you’ll realize that money isn’t everything. Nor is happiness. No! We are not here to be happy. The aim of our life should be fulfilment. More than happiness, man seeks meaning. And when he finds it, his life becomes fulfilling.”

“Philosophy, though unable to tell us with certainty what is the true answer to the doubts which it raises, is able to suggest many possiblities which enlarge our thoughts and free them from the tyranny of custom. Thus, while diminishing our feeling of certainty as to what things are, it greatly increases our knowledge as to what the may be; it removes the somewhat arrogant dogmatism of those who have never travelled into the region of liberating doubt, and it keeps alive our sense of wonder by showing familar things in an unfamilar aspect”