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
Every man takes care that his neighbor shall not cheat him. But a day comes when he begins to care that he does not cheat his neighbor. Then all goes well. He has changed his market cart into a chariot of the sun.
No man can have society upon his own terms.
Vigor is contagious, and whatever makes us either think or feel strongly adds to our power and enlarges our field of action.
Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass.
Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
Intellectual tasting of life will not supersede muscular activity.
What I need is someone who will make me do what I can.
Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door.
Cause and effect are two sides of one fact.
The meaning of good and bad, of better and worse, is simply helping or hurting.
With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.
We forget ourselves and our destinies in health, and the chief use of temporary sickness is to remind us of these concerns.
Art should exhilarate, and throw down the walls of circumstance on every side, awakening in the beholder the same sense of universal relation and power which the work evinced in the artist.
There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us.