Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes about Hate

Nature hates calculators.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature, Hate, Calculators

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Self-Reliance, the Over-Soul, and Other Essays”, p.99, Coyote Canyon Press

A strenuous soul hates cheap success.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Success, Hate, Soul

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2631, Delphi Classics

Nature hates monopolies and exceptions.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature, Hate, Monopoly

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.136, Courier Corporation

I hate this shallow Americanism which hopes to get rich by credit, to get knowledge by raps on midnight tables, to learn the economy of the mind by phrenology, or skill without study, or mastery without apprenticeship.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Hope, Hate, Rap

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2514, Delphi Classics

A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Hate, Anger, Power

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1960). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks: 1841-1843”, p.134, Harvard University Press

You've got to be taught, to hate and fear, You've got to be taught, from year to year, It's got to be drummed in your dear little ear, You've got to be carefully taught.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Hate, Years, Littles

Colleges hate geniuses, just as convents hate saints.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Hate, Book, Beer

I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Inspirational, Hate, Men

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1969). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VII: 1838-1842”, p.278, Harvard University Press

A strenuous soul hates cheap success. It is the ardor of the assailant that makes the vigor of the defendant.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Hate, Soul, Vigor

I hate to be defended in a newspaper. As long as all that is said is said against me, I feel a certain assurance of success. But as soon as honeyed words of praise are spoken for me, I feel as one that lies unprotected before his enemies.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Success, Lying, Hate

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.298, Library of America

The reverence for the deeds of our ancestors is a treacherous sentiment. Their merit was not to reverence the old, but to honor the present moment; and we falsely make them excuses of the very habit which they hated and defied.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Hate, Honor, Deeds

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco, Joel Myerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.527, Harvard University Press

A system-grinder hates the truth.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Hate, Grinder

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Stephen E. Whicher (1959). “The Early Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.327, Harvard University Press

I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Clever, Hate, Book

Journal, May 1849

The people fancy they hate poetry, and they are all poets and mystics.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Hate, People, Fancy

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Self-Reliance, the Over-Soul, and Other Essays”, p.75, Coyote Canyon Press

Immortality. I notice that as soon as writers broach this question they begin to quote. I hate quotation. Tell me what you know.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Hate, Immortality, Knows

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1975). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks: 1848-1851”, p.110, Harvard University Press

How we hate this solemn Ego that accompanies the learned, like a double, wherever he goes.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Hate, Ego, Scholarship

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1969). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VII: 1838-1842”, p.258, Harvard University Press

I hate the prostitution of the name of friendship to signify modish and worldly alliances.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Friendship, Hate, Names

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1841). “Essays”, p.171

He who loves the bristle of bayonets only sees in the glitter what beforehand he feels in his heart. It is avarice and hatred; it is that quivering lip, that cold, hating eye, which built magazines and powder-houses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Hate, Heart, Eye

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1911). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Miscellanies”

If the gatherer gathers too-much, Nature takes out of the man what she puts into his chest; swells the estate, but kills the owner. Nature hates, monopolies and exceptions.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Hate, Men, Too Much

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.136, Courier Corporation

Science in England, in America, is jealous of theory, hates the name of love and moral purpose. There's revenge for this humanity.What manner of man does science make? The boy is not attracted. He says, I do not wish to be such a kind of man as my professor is.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Education, Revenge, Hate

We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten. We can receive anything from love, forthat is a way of receiving it from ourselves; but not from any one who assumes to bestow. We sometimes hate the meat which we eat, because there seems something of degrading dependence in living it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Hate, Hands, Forgiving

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.536, Library of America

This one fact the world hates; that the soul becomes; for that forever degrades the past, turns all riches to poverty, all reputation to a shame, confounds the saint with the rogue, shoves Jesus and Judas equally aside.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Jesus, Hate, Past

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.253, Рипол Классик

The new statement is always hated by the old, and, to those dwelling in the old, comes like an abyss of skepticism.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Hate, Dwelling, Innovation

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.264, Harvard University Press

Debt, grinding debt, whose iron face the widow, the orphan, and the sons of genius fear and hate; debt, which consumes so much time, which so cripples and disheartens a great spirit with cares that seem so base, is a preceptor whose lessons cannot be foregone, and is needed most by those who suffer from it most.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Hate, Son, Iron

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.26, Library of America