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

“Most of the shadows of life are caused by standing in our own sunshine.”

“When we are young, we spend much time and pains in filling our note-books with all definitions of Religion, Love, Poetry, Politics, Art, in the hope that, in the course of a few years, we shall have condensed into our encyclopaedia the net value of all the theories at which the world has yet arrived. But year after year our tables get no completeness, and at last we discover that our curve is a parabola, whose arcs will never meet.”

“Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves, but deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth.”

“He in whom the love of repose predominates will accept the first creed, the first philosophy, the first political party he meets — most likely his father's. He gets rest, commodity, and reputation; but he shuts the door of truth.”

“It could be said that a single person has written all the books in the world such central unity is in them that they are undeniably the work of a single all-knowing master.”

“Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. And, weak men create hard times.”

“You can change your mind, don't let your mind change you”

“Il pessimismo radicale sconfina nell'ottimismo.”

“Step out of my sunlight.”

“It was a dance of masks and every mask was perfect because every mask was a real face and every face was a”

“As soon as a religion comes to dominate it has as its opponents all those who would have been its first disciples.”