"The one thing in the world of value is the active soul.












Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.
More Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes
"The intuition of the moral sentiment is an insight of the perfection of the laws of the soul. These laws execute themselves. They are out of time, out...
"Good is positive. Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of heat. All evil is so much death or nonentity. Ben...
"Beauty is the virtue of the body as virtue is the beauty of the soul
"Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them.
"The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you is that it scatters your force. It loses your time and blurs the impression of your...
"Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.