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Ralph Waldo Emerson

All RALPH WALDO EMERSON Quotes about “Belief”

“All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.”
“All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.”
“The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.”
“The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.”
“The eloquent man is he who is no beautiful speaker, but who is inwardly and desperately drunk with a certain belief.”
“The eloquent man is he who is no beautiful speaker, but who is inwardly and desperately drunk with a certain belief.”
“Harder still it has proved to rule the dragon Money... A whole generation adopted false principles, and went to their graves in the belief they were enriching the country they were impoverishing.”
“Harder still it has proved to rule the dragon Money... A whole generation adopted false principles, and went to their graves in the belief they were enriching the country they were impoverishing.”
“As long as our civilization is essentially one of property, of fences, of exclusiveness, it will be mocked by delusions.”
“As long as our civilization is essentially one of property, of fences, of exclusiveness, it will be mocked by delusions.”
“Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief in denying them.”
“Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief in denying them.”
“There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right.”
“There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right.”
“If you believe in fate, believe in it, at least, for your good.”
“If you believe in fate, believe in it, at least, for your good.”
“We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.”
“We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.”
“To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men that is genius.”
“To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men that is genius.”
“We live in a very low state of the world, and pay unwilling tribute to government founded on force. There is not, among the most religious and instructed men of the most religious and civil nations, a reliance on the moral sentiment, and a sufficient belief in the unity of things to persuade them that society can be maintained without artificial restraints, as well as the solar system; or that the private citizen might be reasonable, and a good neighbor, without the hint of a jail or a confiscation.”
“We live in a very low state of the world, and pay unwilling tribute to government founded on force. There is not, among the most religious and instructed men of the most religious and civil nations, a reliance on the moral sentiment, and a sufficient belief in the unity of things to persuade them that society can be maintained without artificial restraints, as well as the solar system; or that the private citizen might be reasonable, and a good neighbor, without the hint of a jail or a confiscation.”
“Shallow men believe in luck, believe in circumstances: it was somebody's name, or he happened to be there at right time, or it was so then, and another day it would have been otherwise. Strong men believe in cause and effect.”
“Shallow men believe in luck, believe in circumstances: it was somebody's name, or he happened to be there at right time, or it was so then, and another day it would have been otherwise. Strong men believe in cause and effect.”
“Our first mistake is the belief that the circumstance gives the joy which we give to the circumstance.”
“Our first mistake is the belief that the circumstance gives the joy which we give to the circumstance.”
“We judge others by their actions but we judge ourselves by our intensions.”
“We judge others by their actions but we judge ourselves by our intensions.”
“As the Sandwich Islander believes that the strength and valor of the enemy he kills passes into himself, so we gain the strength of the temptation we resist.”
“As the Sandwich Islander believes that the strength and valor of the enemy he kills passes into himself, so we gain the strength of the temptation we resist.”
“Science does not know its debt to imagination. Goethe did not believe that a great naturalist could exist without this faculty.”
“Science does not know its debt to imagination. Goethe did not believe that a great naturalist could exist without this faculty.”
“The world is upheld by the veracity of good men: they make the earth wholesome. They who lived with them found life glad and nutritious. Life is sweet and tolerable only in our belief in such society.”
“The world is upheld by the veracity of good men: they make the earth wholesome. They who lived with them found life glad and nutritious. Life is sweet and tolerable only in our belief in such society.”
“That which we do not believe, we cannot adequately say; even though we may repeat the words ever so often.”
“That which we do not believe, we cannot adequately say; even though we may repeat the words ever so often.”
“Every man believes he has a greater possibility.”
“Every man believes he has a greater possibility.”
“Go face the fire at sea, or the cholera in your friend's house, or the burglar in your own, or what danger lies in the way of duty, knowing you are guarded by the cherubim of Destiny. If you believe in Fate to your harm, believe it, at least, for your good.”
“Go face the fire at sea, or the cholera in your friend's house, or the burglar in your own, or what danger lies in the way of duty, knowing you are guarded by the cherubim of Destiny. If you believe in Fate to your harm, believe it, at least, for your good.”
“All the great ages have been ages of belief.”
“All the great ages have been ages of belief.”
“Belief and love,--a believing love will relieve us of a vast load of care. O my brothers, God exists. There is a soul at the centre of nature, and over the will of every man, so that none of us can wrong the universe.”
“Belief and love,--a believing love will relieve us of a vast load of care. O my brothers, God exists. There is a soul at the centre of nature, and over the will of every man, so that none of us can wrong the universe.”
“The bulk of mankind believe in two gods. They are under one dominion here in the house, as friend and parent, in social circles, in letters, in art, in love, in religion; but in mechanics, in dealing with steam and climate, in trade, in politics, they think they come under another.”
“The bulk of mankind believe in two gods. They are under one dominion here in the house, as friend and parent, in social circles, in letters, in art, in love, in religion; but in mechanics, in dealing with steam and climate, in trade, in politics, they think they come under another.”
“Real men don't conform to the beliefs of others, even when society has concluded on what is good and true, but maintain the integrity of their own mind.”
“Real men don't conform to the beliefs of others, even when society has concluded on what is good and true, but maintain the integrity of their own mind.”
“I have heard that death takes us away from ill things, not from good. I have heard that when we pronounce the name of man we pronounce the belief of immortality.”
“I have heard that death takes us away from ill things, not from good. I have heard that when we pronounce the name of man we pronounce the belief of immortality.”
“The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny.”
“What terrible questions we are learning to ask! The former men believed in magic, by which temples, cities, and men were swallowed up, and all trace of them gone. We are coming on the secret of a magic which sweeps out of men's minds all vestige of theism and beliefs which they and their fathers held and were framed upon.”
“Freedom is not the right to live as we please, but the right to find how we ought to live in order to fulfill our potential.”
“The new statement will comprise the skepticisms, as well as the faiths of society, and out of unbeliefs a creed shall be formed. For, skepticisms are not gratuitous or lawless, but are limitations of the affirmative statement, and the new philosophy must take them in, and make affirmations outside of them, just as much as must include the oldest beliefs.”
“All ages of belief have been great; all of unbelief have been mean.”

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All RALPH WALDO EMERSON Quotes about “Belief”

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