Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes about Individuality

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We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Individuality, Taught, Action

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2014). “The Portable Emerson”, p.35, Penguin

Our expenses are all for conformity.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Individuality, Conformity, Expenses

Masses are rude, lame, unmade, pernicious in their demands and influence, and need not to be flattered, but to be schooled. I wish not to concede anything to them, but to tame, drill, divide, and break them up, and draw individuals out of them.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Rude, Individuality, Wish

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2360, Delphi Classics

Every individual nature has its own beauty. One is struck in every company, at every fireside, with the riches of nature, when he hears so many new tones, all musical, sees in each person original manners, which have a proper and peculiar charm, and reads new expressions of face. He perceives that nature has laid for each the foundations of a divine building, if the soul will build thereon.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Expression, Soul, Individuality

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2447, Delphi Classics