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
Thought makes everything fit for use.
The moral sense reappears today with the same morning newness that has been from of old the fountain of beauty and strength. You say there is no religion now. 'Tis like saying in rainy weather, There is no sun, when at that moment we are witnessing one of its superlative effects.
There is a capacity of virtue in us, and there is a capacity of vice to make your blood creep.
Crime and punishment grow out of one stem.
Wise men are not wise at all times.
He, who loves the bristle of bayonets, only sees in their glitter what beforehand he feels in his hand.
Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite without any wish to act.
Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.
Among provocative, the next best thing to good preaching is bad preaching.
The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue.
The best of life is conversation, and the greatest success is confidence, or perfect understanding between sincere people.
The astonishment of life is the absence of any appearances of reconciliation between the theory and the practice of life.
The philosophy of waiting is sustained by all the oracles of the universe.
The spirit of our American radicalism is destructive and aimless; it is not loving; it has no ulterior and divine ends; but is destructive only out of hatred and selfishness.