Quotes from bookExperience
"Experience" is an essay by Ralph Waldo Emerson. It was published in the collection Essays: Second Series in 1844. The essay is preceded by a poem of the same title.
“Dream delivers us to dream, and there is no end to illusion.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson book Experience
1840s, Essays: Second Series (1844), Experience
Context: Dream delivers us to dream, and there is no end to illusion. Life is a train of moods like a string of beads, and, as we pass through them, they prove to be many-colored lenses which paint the world their own hue, and each shows only what lies in its focus.
“Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson book Experience
1840s, Essays: Second Series (1844), Experience
Variant: Nature and books belong to all who see them.
“The years teach much which the days never know.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson book Experience
1840s, Essays: Second Series (1844), Experience
“We do what we must, and call it by the best names we can.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson book Experience
1840s, Essays: Second Series (1844), Experience
“Every ship is a romantic object, except that we sail in.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson book Experience
1840s, Essays: Second Series (1844), Experience
“The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson book Experience
Experience
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“We live amid surfaces, and the true art of life is to skate well on them.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson book Experience
1840s, Essays: Second Series (1844), Experience
