Self-Reliance & Other Essays Quotes.

1. "There is one mind common to all individual men. Every man is an inlet to the same and to all of the same. He that is once admitted to the right of reason is made a freeman of the whole estate. What Plato has thought, he may think; what a saint has felt, he may feel; what at any time has befallen any man, he can understand. Who hath access to this universal mind is a party to all that is or can be done, for this is the only and sovereign agent."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance & Other Essays

2. "In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty. Great"
- Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance & Other Essays

3. "Power is, in nature, the essential measure of right. Nature suffers nothing to remain in her kingdoms which cannot help itself. The genesis and maturation of a planet, its poise and orbit, the bended tree recovering itself from the strong wind, the vital resources of every animal and vegetable, are demonstrations of the self-sufficing and therefore self-relying soul."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance & Other Essays

4. "A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance & Other Essays

5. "He who knows that power is inborn, that he is weak because he has looked for good out of him and elsewhere, and so perceiving, throws himself unhesitatingly on his thought, instantly rights himself, stands in the erect position, commands his limbs, works miracles; just as a man who stands on his feet is stronger than a man who stands on his head."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance & Other Essays