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
We live in succession, in division, in parts, in particles. Meantime within man is the soul of the whole; the wise silence; the universal beauty, to which every part and particle is equally related, the eternal ONE. And this deep power in which we exist and whose beatitude is all accessible to us, is not only self-sufficing and perfect in every hour, but the act of seeing and the thing seen, the seer and the spectacle, the subject and the object, are one. We see the world piece by piece, as the sun, the moon, the animal, the tree; but the whole, of which these are shining parts, is the soul.
I wish that life should not be cheap, but sacred. I wish the days to be as centuries, loaded, fragrant.
All promise outruns performance.
There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right.
Blame is safer than praise
Crime and punishment grow out of one stem. Punishment is a fruit that, unsuspected, ripens with the flower of the pleasure that concealed it.
I cannot find language of sufficient energy to convey my sense of the sacredness of private integrity.
When It's Darkest, Men See the Stars.
The efforts which we make to escape from our destiny only serve to lead us into it.
If you believe in fate, believe in it, at least, for your good.
No man should travel until he has learned the language of the country he visits. Otherwise he voluntarily makes himself a great baby - so helpless and so ridiculous.
A little integrity is better than any career.
No matter how you seem to fatten on a crime, there can never be good for the bee which is bad for the hive.
He who would be a man must therefore be a non-conformist.