Circles Quotes

“Our moods do not believe in each other. To-day I am full of thoughts and can write what I please. I see no reason why I should not have the same thought, the same power of expression, to-morrow. What I write, whilst I write it, seems the most natural thing in the world: but yesterday I saw a dreary vacuity in this direction in which now I see so much; and a month hence, I doubt not, I shall wonder who he was that wrote so many continuous pages.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Circles

“I am only an experimenter. Do not set the least value on what I do, or the least discredit on what I do not, as if I pretended to settle any thing as true or false. I unsettle all things. No facts are to me sacred; none are profane; I simply experiment, an endless seeker.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Circles

“Every thing looks permanent until its secret is known.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Circles

“Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood; and if there is any truth in him ... I see not how it can be otherwise.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Circles

“The life of man is a self-evolving circle, which, from a ring imperceptibly small, rushes on all sides outwards to new and larger circles, and that without end.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Circles

“No truth so sublime but it may be trivial to-morrow in the light of new thoughts. People wish to be settled: only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Circles

“The energy of the mind is commensurate with the work to be done.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Circles

“This surface on which we now stand is not fixed, but sliding.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Circles

“There are no fixtures in nature. The universe is fluid and volatile.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Circles

“«Nature centres into balls, And her proud ephemerals, Fast to surface and outside, Scan the profile of the sphere; Knew they what that signified, A new genesis were here».”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Circles

“Our life is an apprenticeship to the truth, that around every circle another can be drawn; that there is no end in nature, but every end is a beginning; that there is always another dawn risen on mid-noon, and under every deep a lower deep opens.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Circles

“«The eye is the first circle; the horizon which it forms is the second; and throughout nature this primary figure is repeated without end. It is the highest emblem in the cipher of the world. St. Augustine described the nature of God as a circle whose centre was everywhere, and its circumference nowhere».”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Circles

“How often must we learn this lesson? Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations. The only sin is limitation. As soon as you once come up with a man's limitations, it is all over with him”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Circles