Ralph Waldo Emerson - Essays: First Series (1841)

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Show us an arc of the curve, and a good mathematician will find out the whole figure. We are always reasoning from the seen to the unseen.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
The root of the plant is not unsightly to science...

Ralph Waldo Emerson
The idealism of Berkeley is only a crude statement of the idealism of Jesus, and that again is a crude statement of the fact thatall nature is the rapid efflux of goodness executing and organizing itself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Generalization is always a new influx of divinity into the mind. Hence the thrill that attends it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
No love can be bound by oath or covenant to secure it against a higher love.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Cause and effect are two sides of one fact.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
God screens us evermore from premature ideas.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
What connection do the books show between the fifty or sixty chemical elements and the historical eras?

Ralph Waldo Emerson
No anchor, no cable, no fences, avail to keep a fact a fact.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Is it any better if the student... aims to make a mechanical whole of.,.science... by a numerical addition of all the facts that fall within his vision.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Poets should be law-givers; that is, the boldest lyric inspiration should not chide and insult, but should announce and lead the civil code, and the day's work.

Ralph Waldo Emerson