"The only true gift is a portion of yourself" — Ralph Waldo Emerson

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

Source: Miscellaneous Aphorisms (1911)

If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.

Source: The Varieties of Religious Experience (1902)

Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake

Source: A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849)

I count life just a stuff to try the soul's strength on

Source: In a Balcony (1855)

Every thing possible to be believed is an image of truth

Source: The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790-1793)

Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believed

Source: The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790-1793)

Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote