Ralph Waldo Emerson Enthusiasm Quotations

Enthusiasm is the height of man; it is the passing from the human to the divine.

In actions of enthusiasm, this drawback appears: but in those lower activities, which have no higher aim than to make us more comfortable and more cowardly, in actions of cunning, actions that steal and lie, actions that divorce the speculative from the practical faculty, and put a ban on reason and sentiment, there is nothing else but drawback and negation.

Enthusiasm is the leaping lightning, not to be measured by the horse-power of the understanding

A man's library is a sort of harem.

Nothing great ever happened without enthusiasm.

Enthusiasm is the engine of success..

To have played and laughed with enthusiasm, and sung with exultation - this to to have succeeded.