Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson, known professionally as Waldo Emerson, was an American essayist, lecturer, and poet who led the Transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century. He was seen as a champion of individualism and a prescient critic of the countervailing pressures of society, and he disseminated his thoughts through dozens of published essays and more than 1,500 public lectures across the United States...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth25 May 1803
CountryUnited States of America
History no longer shall be a dull book. It shall walk incarnate in every just and wise man. You shall not tell me by language and titles a catalogue of the volumes you have read. You shall make me feel what periods you have lived.
The years in your life are less important than the life in your years.
There are always two parties; the establishment and the movement.
Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events. Great men have always done so, and confided themselves childlike to the genius of their age, betraying their perception that the absolutely trustworthy was seated at their heart, working through their hands, predominating in all their being.
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Learn from it... tomorrow is a new day.
A man is a god in ruins.
Every genuine work of art has as much reason for being as the earth and the sun.
The artists must be sacrificed to their art. Like the bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.
Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it.
Man was born to be rich, or grow rich by use of his faculties, by the union of thought with nature. Property is an intellectual production. The game requires coolness, right reasoning, promptness, and patience in the players.
A friend is the hope of the heart.
Music causes us to think eloquently.
Who shall set a limit to the influence of a human being?
I know of no such unquestionable badge and ensign of a sovereign mind as that of tenacity of purpose...