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
There are men who, by their sympathetic attractions, carry nations with them, and lead the activity of the human race.
If you have a nation of men who have risen to that height of moral cultivation that they will not declare war or carry arms, for they have not so much madness left in their brains, you have a nation of lovers, of benefactors, of true, great, and able men.
An original sentence, a step forward, is worth more than all the censures.
The most active lives have so much routine as to preclude progress almost equally with the most inactive.
Every man is an infinitely repelling orb, and holds his individual being on that condition.
The sanity of society is a balance of a thousand insanity's.
Every ship is a romantic object, except that we sail in.
It is not the irregular hours or irregular diet that makes the romantic life.
Conservatism, ever more timorous and narrow, disgusts the children, and drives them for a mouthful of fresh air into radicalism.
The wise man always throws himself on the side of his assailants. It is more his interest than it is theirs to find his weak point.
Always scorn appearances and you always may.
Proportion is almost impossible to human beings. There is no one who does not exaggerate.
Is there a difference? Yes. We are in harmony with nature, but never at peace.
Conformity is the ape of harmony.