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
You can take better care of your secret than another can.
A forte always makes a foible.
Man sheds grief as his skin sheds rain.
A sympathetic person is placed in the dilemma of a swimmer among drowning men, who all catch at him, and if he gives so much as a leg or a finger, they will drown him.
It is doubtless a vice to turn one's eyes inward too much, but I am my own comedy and tragedy.
Isolation must precede true society.
We all wish to be of importance in one way or another. The child coughs with might and main, since it has no other claim on the company.
God will have life to be real; we will be damned, but it shall be theatrical.
Any work looks wonderful to me except the one which I can do.
The question is whether [suicide] is the way out, or the way in.
Pain, indolence, sterility, endless ennui have also their lesson for you, if you are great.
A sleeping child gives me the impression of a traveler in a very far country.
The eye obeys exactly the action of the mind.
Don't set out to teach theism from your natural history... You spoil both.