Ralph Waldo Emerson

Quote of Ralph Waldo Emerson - Though we travel the world over...

Biography - Ralph Waldo Emerson:

American essayist, lecturer and poet.
Born: 1803 - Died: 1882
Period:
19th century
Place of birth: United States

United States

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Bien que nous voyagions à travers le monde pour trouver la beauté, nous devons la porter en nous, sans cela nous ne la trouverons pas.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Und wenn wir die ganze Welt durchreisen, um das Schöne zu finden: Wir mögen es in uns tragen, sonst finden wir es nicht.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.

They change the sky, not their soul, who run across the sea.

Quintus Horatius Flaccus - Epistles

Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering.

Augustine of Hippo - Confessions

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

We admire the world through what we love.

Alphonse de Lamartine - Jocelyn

Beauty is no quality in things themselves : It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them ; and each mind perceives a different beauty.

David Hume - Of the Standard of Taste

Life is what we make of it. Travels are travellers. What we see is not what we see but what we are.

Fernando Pessoa

It is in man's heart that the life of nature's spectacle exists; to see it, one must feel it.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau - Emile, or On Education

Happiness is not easily won; it is hard to find it in ourselves and impossible to find it elsewhere.

Nicolas Chamfort - Maximes et pensées

It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful; but it is far more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look, which morally we can do. To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.

Henry David Thoreau - Walden; or, Life in the Woods

The only true voyage, the only bath in the Fountain of Youth, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes, to see the universe through the eyes of another, of a hundred others, to see the hundred universes that each of them sees, that each of them is.

Marcel Proust - La Prisonnière

Quotes for: beauty

Quotes about beauty:

All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.

Baruch Spinoza - Ethics /

All the diversity, all the charm, all the beauty of life are made up of light and shade.

Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine of Hippo /

What beauty is, I know not.

Albrecht Dürer /

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I hold that the perfection of form and beauty is contained in the sum of all men.

Albrecht Dürer - Four Books of Human Proportion /

Beauty is the sole ambition, the exclusive goal of Taste.

Charles Baudelaire /

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Quotes for: world

Quotes about the world:

The world of the happy man is a different one from that of the unhappy man.

Ludwig Wittgenstein - Tractatus Logico-philosophicus /

To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.

William Blake - Auguries of Innocence /

The world is in greater peril from those who tolerate or encourage evil than from those who actually commit it.

Albert Einstein /

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

Let us read and let us dance—these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.

Voltaire - Philosophical Dictionary /

How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.

William Shakespeare - The Merchant of Venice /

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Quotes for: travel

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

Laozi /

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Who wishes to travel far spares his steed.

Jean Racine - Les Plaideurs /

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Nothing develops intelligence like travel.

Émile Zola - Aventures du grand Sidoine et du petit Médéric /

Travel teaches toleration.

Benjamin Disraeli /

The man who goes alone can start today but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.

Henry David Thoreau

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To travel is to live.

Hans Christian Andersen - The fairy tale of my life /

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Ralph Waldo Emerson also said...

Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great.

Ralph Waldo Emerson /

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

Ralph Waldo Emerson /

Earth laughs in flowers.

Ralph Waldo Emerson - Hamatreya /

Money often costs too much.

Ralph Waldo Emerson /

The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil.

Ralph Waldo Emerson - Lectures - Education /

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make, the better.

Ralph Waldo Emerson - Journals /

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