All RALPH WALDO EMERSON Quotes about “Culture”

“Our culture, therefore, must not omit the arming of the man. Let him hear in season, that he is born into the state of war, and that the commonwealth and his own well-being require that he should not go dancing in the weeds of peace, but warned, self- collected, and neither defying nor dreading the thunder, let him take both reputation and life in his hand, and, with perfect urbanity, dare the gibbet and the mob by the absolute truth of his speech, and the rectitude of his behaviour.”
“Our culture, therefore, must not omit the arming of the man. Let him hear in season, that he is born into the state of war, and that the commonwealth and his own well-being require that he should not go dancing in the weeds of peace, but warned, self- collected, and neither defying nor dreading the thunder, let him take both reputation and life in his hand, and, with perfect urbanity, dare the gibbet and the mob by the absolute truth of his speech, and the rectitude of his behaviour.”
“Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind; and when the same thought occurs to another man, it is the key to that era.”
“Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind; and when the same thought occurs to another man, it is the key to that era.”
“Culture is one thing and varnish is another.”
“Culture is one thing and varnish is another.”
“It the proof of high culture to say the greatest matters in the simplest way.”
“It the proof of high culture to say the greatest matters in the simplest way.”
“We fancy men are individuals; so are pumpkins; but every pumpkin in the field goes through every point of pumpkin history.”
“We fancy men are individuals; so are pumpkins; but every pumpkin in the field goes through every point of pumpkin history.”
“Who makes and keeps the Jew or the Negro base, who but you, who exclude them from the rights which others enjoy?”
“Who makes and keeps the Jew or the Negro base, who but you, who exclude them from the rights which others enjoy?”
“Nor knowest thou what argument Thy life to thy neighbor's creed has lent. All are needed by each one; Nothing is fair or good alone.”
“Nor knowest thou what argument Thy life to thy neighbor's creed has lent. All are needed by each one; Nothing is fair or good alone.”
“God said, I am tired of kings, I suffer them no more; Up to my ear this morning brings The outrage of the poor.”
“God said, I am tired of kings, I suffer them no more; Up to my ear this morning brings The outrage of the poor.”
“What is a man born for but to be a reformer, a remaker of what has been made, a denouncer of lies, a restorer of truth and good?”
“What is a man born for but to be a reformer, a remaker of what has been made, a denouncer of lies, a restorer of truth and good?”
“A cheerful, intelligent face is the end of culture.”
“A cheerful, intelligent face is the end of culture.”
“Not out of those, on whom systems of education have exhausted their culture, comes the helpful giant to destroy the old or to build the new, but out of unhandselled savage nature, out of terrible Druids and Berserkirs, come at last Alfred and Shakespeare.”
“Not out of those, on whom systems of education have exhausted their culture, comes the helpful giant to destroy the old or to build the new, but out of unhandselled savage nature, out of terrible Druids and Berserkirs, come at last Alfred and Shakespeare.”
“But there are higher secrets of culture, which are not for the apprentices, but for proficients. These are lessons only for the brave. We must know our friends under ugly masks. The calamities are our friends.”
“But there are higher secrets of culture, which are not for the apprentices, but for proficients. These are lessons only for the brave. We must know our friends under ugly masks. The calamities are our friends.”
“Sanity consists in not being subdued by your means. Fancy prices are paid for position, and for the culture of talent, but to thegrand interests, superficial success is of no account.”
“Sanity consists in not being subdued by your means. Fancy prices are paid for position, and for the culture of talent, but to thegrand interests, superficial success is of no account.”
“The foundation of culture, as of character, is at last the moral sentiment.”
“The foundation of culture, as of character, is at last the moral sentiment.”
“It is for want of self-culture that the superstition of Travelling, whose idols are Italy, England, Egypt, retains its fascinationfor all educated Americans.”
“It is for want of self-culture that the superstition of Travelling, whose idols are Italy, England, Egypt, retains its fascinationfor all educated Americans.”
“Whilst all the world is in pursuit of power, culture corrects the theory of success.”
“Whilst all the world is in pursuit of power, culture corrects the theory of success.”
“He only is a well-made man who has a good determination. And the end of culture is not to destroy this, God forbid! but to train away all impediment and mixture and leave nothing but pure power.”
“Let a man attain the highest and broadest culture that any American has possessed, then let him die by sea-storm, railroad collision, or other accident, and all America will acquiesce that the best thing has happened to him; that, after the education has gone far, such is the expensiveness of America, that the best use to put a fine person to is to drown him to save his board.”
“A cheerful intelligent face is the end of culture, and success enough. For it indicates the purpose of Nature and wisdom attained.”
“The land is the appointed remedy for whatever is false and fantastic in our culture. The continent we inhabit is to be physic andfood for our mind, as well as our body. The land, with its tranquilizing, sanative influences, is to repair the errors of a scholastic and traditional education, and bring us to just relations with men and things.”
“The secret of culture is to learn, that a few great points steadily reappear, alike in the poverty of the obscurest farm, and in the miscellany of metropolitan life, and that these few are alone to be regarded,--the escape from all false ties; courage to be what we are; and love what is simple and beautiful; independence and cheerful relation, these are the essentials,--these, and the wish to serve,--to add somewhat to the well-being of men.”
“The time will come when the evil forms we have known can no more be organized. Man's culture can spare nothing, wants all material. He is to convert all impediments into instruments, all enemies into power.”
“England produces under favorable conditions of ease and culture the finest women in the world. And, as the men are affectionate and true-hearted, the women inspire and refine them.”
“Culture is the suggestion, from certain best thoughts, that a man has a range of affinities through which he can modulate the violence of any master-tones that have a droning preponderance in his scale, and succor him against himself. Culture redresses this imbalance, puts him among equals and superiors, revives the delicious sense of sympathy, and warns him of the dangers of solitude and repulsion.”
“The highest end of government is the culture of men.”
“The land is the appointed remedy for whatever is false and fantastic in our culture...food for our mind, as well as our body.”
“The saint and poet seek privacy to ends the most public and universal: and it is the secret of culture, to interest the man more in his public, than in his private quality.”
“Society cannot do without cultivated men. As soon as the first wants are satisfied, the higher wants become imperative.”
“As we refine, our checks become finer. If we rise to spiritual culture, the antagonism takes a spiritual form.”

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