Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

The physician heals, Nature makes well.

Nature spontaneously keeps us well. Do not resist her!

The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind.

Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men.

I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.

'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.'

The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.

We are neither obstinately nor wilfully to oppose evils, nor truckle under them for want of courage, but that we are naturally to give way to them, according to their condition and our own, we ought to grant free passage to diseases; and I find they stay less with me who let them alone. And I have lost those which are reputed the most tenacious and obstinate of their own defervescence, without any help or art, and contrary to their rules. Let us a little permit nature to take her own way; she better understands her own affairs than we.

Nature is doing her best each moment to make us well. Why, nature is but another name for health.

In the vaunted works of Art, The master-stroke is Nature's part.

To the body and mind which have been cramped by noxious work or company, nature is medicinal and restores their tone.

Man is the broken giant, and in all his weakness both his body and his mind are invigorated by habits of conversation with nature.

Muscles are in a most intimate and peculiar sense the organs of the will. They have built all the roads, cities and machines in the world, written all the books, spoken all the words, and, in fact done everything that man has accomplished with matter. Character might be a sense defined as a plexus of motor habits.

Science is a human activity, and the best way to understand it is to understand the individual human beings who practise it. Science is an art form and not a philosophical method. The great advances in science usually result from new tools rather than from new doctrines. ... Every time we introduce a new tool, it always leads to new and unexpected discoveries, because Nature's imagination is richer than ours.

The art is not one of forgetting but letting go. And when everything else is gone, you can be rich in loss.

When you paint Spring, do not paint willows, plums, peaches, or apricots - just paint Spring.

For all of my patients sensuality is a giving in to 'the low side of their nature.' Puritanism is powerful and distorts their life with a total anesthesia of the senses. If you atrophy one sense, you also atrophy all the others, a sensuous and physical connection with nature, with art, with food, with other human beings.

One day, in the San Francisco walk, he came upon some badly painted figures and observed that good painters imitate nature but bad ones vomit it forth.

Music represents nature. Nature represents life. Jazz represents nature. Jazz is life.

Art can never match the luxury and superfluity of Nature. In the former all is seen; it cannot afford concealed wealth, and is niggardly in comparison; but Nature, even when she is scant and thin outwardly, satisfies us still by the assurance of a certain generosity at the roots.

Beauty ...is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon.

Even losing you (the joking voice, a gesture I love) I shan't have lied. It's evident the art of losing's not too hard to master though it may look like (Write it!) like disaster.

A Garden, an Elaboratory, a Work - house, Improvements and Breeding, are pleasant and Profitable Diversions to the Idle and Ingenious: For here they miss Ill Company, and converse with Nature and Art; whose Variety are equally grateful and instructing; and preserve a good Constitution of Body and Mind.

Love and I once had a great relationship, but I fear we've broken up. It cheated on me, wrecked my heart, and then went on to date other people. A lot of other people. And I can't stand to watch it, since love's going to cheat on them too.