the sense of being which in calm hours arises, we know not how, in the soul, is not diverse from things, from space, from light, from time, from man, but one with them and proceeds obviously from the same source.... Here is the fountain of action and of thought.... We lie in the lap of immense intelligence.


Ralph Waldo Emerson: representative selections, with introduction, bibliography, and notes (ed. 1934)

Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

The sense of being which in calm hours arises, we know not how, in the soul, is not diverse from things, from space, from light, from time, from man, ...

The sense of being which in calm hours arises, we know not how, in the soul, is not diverse from things, from space, from light, from time, from man, ...

The sense of being which in calm hours arises, we know not how, in the soul, is not diverse from things, from space, from light, from time, from man, ...

The sense of being which in calm hours arises, we know not how, in the soul, is not diverse from things, from space, from light, from time, from man, ...