Man is an analogist, and studies relations in all objects. He is placed in the center of beings, and a ray of relation passes from every other being to him. And neither can man be understood without these objects, nor these objects without man.


Miscellanies (ed. 1876)

Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

Man is an analogist, and studies relations in all objects. He is placed in the center of beings, and a ray of relation passes from every other being...

Man is an analogist, and studies relations in all objects. He is placed in the center of beings, and a ray of relation passes from every other being...

Man is an analogist, and studies relations in all objects. He is placed in the center of beings, and a ray of relation passes from every other being...

Man is an analogist, and studies relations in all objects. He is placed in the center of beings, and a ray of relation passes from every other being...