Ralph Waldo Emerson Perfection Quotations

Every particular in nature, a leaf, a drop, a crystal, a moment of time is related to the whole, and partakes of the perfection of the whole.

An action is the perfection and publication of thought. A right action seems to fill the eye, and to be related to all nature.

And what is Genius but finer love, a love impersonal, a love of the flower and perfection of things, and a desire to draw a new picture or copy of the same? It looks to the cause and life: it proceeds from within outward, whilst Talent goes from without inward.

Underneath the inharmonious and trivial particulars, is a musical perfection, the Ideal journeying always with us, the heaven without rent or seam.

An action is the perfection and publication of thought.

Self reliance, the height and perfection of man, is reliance on God.