The Quotation IndexThe trusted reference for quotations and the sources behind them
Subcategory Philosophy Metaphysics

Featured

To see a world in a grain of sand
And a heaven in a wild flower,
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand
And eternity in an hour.
William Blake Auguries of Innocence · 1803

Metaphysics Quotations

To see a world in a grain of sand
And a heaven in a wild flower,
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand
And eternity in an hour.

William Blake · Auguries of Innocence, 1803 · Primary source

“It was for beauty that the world was made.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson · Beauty, 1841 · Primary source

“Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence.”

William Blake · The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, 1790 · Primary source

“That Beauty is the normal state, is shown by the perpetual effort of Nature to attain it.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson · Beauty, 1841 · Primary source

“Standing on the bare ground—my head bathed by the blithe air, and uplifted into infinite space—all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eye-ball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or particle of God.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson · Nature, 1836 · Primary source

“The life of man is a self-evolving circle, which, from a ring imperceptibly small, rushes on all sides outwards to new and larger circles, and would embrace at last the universal sphere.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson · Circles, 1841 · Primary source

“The eye is the first circle; the horizon which it forms is the second; and throughout nature this primary figure is repeated without end.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson · No reliable source

“There is no outside, no inclosing wall, no circumference to us.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson · Circles, 1841 · Primary source

Explore the subcategory

Metaphysics

2 authors · 5 works · 15 themes · 25 tags
Authors
Ralph Waldo Emerson American essayist and philosopherWilliam Blake English poet and artist
Works
Nature Ralph Waldo Emerson · 1836Circles Ralph Waldo Emerson · 1841Beauty Ralph Waldo Emerson · 1841
Themes
Continual expansion of the selfThe infinite within the finitePerception beyond ordinary limits
Tags
TranscendentalismNaturePerceptionBeauty
✓Copied