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
The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.
The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all.
Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual.
A man is a method, a progressive arrangement; a selecting principle, gathering his like to him; wherever he goes.
Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.
Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.
There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm. We wake from one dream into another dream.
A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.
Every experiment, by multitudes or by individuals, that has a sensual and selfish aim, will fail.
The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough.
A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.
A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.
Others can get in your way temporarily, but only you can get out of your way permanently. Our best thoughts come from others.
Every man's condition is a solution in hieroglyph to those inquiries he would put. He acts it as life before he apprehends it as truth.