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 solar system has no anxiety about its reputation.
If I know your sect, I anticipate your argument
A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self control is the rule. Anger is an uncontrollable feeling that betrays what you are when you are not yourself. Anger is that powerful internal force that blows out the light of reason. Know this to be the enemy: it is anger, born of desire.
Though I am weak, yet God, when prayed, Cannot withhold his conquering aid.
With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall.
The regular course of studies, the years of academical and professional education, have not yielded me better facts than some idle books under the bench at the Latin School.
The craft of the merchant is this bringing a thing where it abounds to where it is costly.
[on Thoreau:] For not a particle of respect had he to the opinions of any man or body of men, but homage solely to truth itself.
We are impressed and even daunted by the immense Universe to be explored. "What we know is a point to what we do not know."
I DO not count the hours I spend In wandering by the sea; The forest is my loyal friend, Like God it useth me.
The horseman serves the horse, The neat-herd serves the neat, The merchant serves the purse, The eater serves his meat; 'Tis the day of the chattel, Web to weave, and corn to grind, Things are in the saddle, And ride mankind.
The machine unmakes the man. Now that the machine is so perfect, the engineer is nobody.
The universal does not attract us until housed in an individual.
A nation never falls but by suicide.