Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes about Unity

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God is Unity, but always works in variety.

God is Unity, but always works in variety.

Oneness, Unity, Variety

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alfred R. Ferguson (1965). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume V: 1835-1838”, p.177, Harvard University Press

If speculation tends thus to a terrific unity, in which all things are absorbed, action tends directly back to diversity. The first is the course or gravitation of mind; the second is the power of nature. Nature is manifold. The unity absorbs, and melts or reduces. Nature opens and creates. These two principles reappear and interpenetrate all things, all thought; the one, the many.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Two, Diversity, Unity

Moller, in his Essay on Architecture, taught that the building which was fitted accurately to answer its end would turn out to be beautiful, though beauty had not been intended. I find the like unity in human structures rather virulent and pervasive.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Beautiful, Unity, Answers

Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.425, Harvard University Press

When I behold a rich landscape, it is less to my purpose to recite correctly the order and superposition of the strata, than to know why all thought of multitude is lost in a tranquil sense of unity.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Knowledge, Order, Unity

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.28, Courier Corporation

...man is an analogist, and studies relations in all objects. He is placed in the center of beings, and a ray of relation passes from every other being to him. And neither can man be understood without these objects, nor these objects without man.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Men, Unity, Rays

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.21, Library of America

Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes about Unity

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