Ralph Waldo Emerson Vision Quotations

This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.

Personal beauty is then first charming and itself, when it dissatisfies us with any end; when it becomes a story without an end; when it suggests gleams and visions, and not earthly satisfactions; when it makes the beholder feel his unworthiness; when he cannot feel his right to it, though he were Caesar; he cannot feel more right to it than to the firmament and the splendors of a sunset.

When there is no vision, people perish.

What is life but the angle of vision? A man is measured by the angle at which he looks at objects.

Where there is no vision a people perish.

Commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred.

Though we travel the world over to find beauty, we must carry it with us or we find it not . . . The difference between landscape and landscape is small, but there is a great difference in beholders.

We are immensed in beauty, but our eyes have no clear vision.