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
Tis a short sight to limit our faith in laws to those of gravity, of chemistry, of botany, and so forth.
There is not a piece of science, but its flank may be turned tomorrow.
How we hate this solemn Ego that accompanies the learned, like a double, wherever he goes.
A great man will find a great subject, or which is the same thing, make any subject great.
When fear enters the heart of a man at hearing the names of candidates and the reading of laws that are proposed, then is the State safe, but when these things are heard without regard, as above or below us, then is the Commonwealth sick or dead.
The State is a poor, good beast who means the best: it means friendly.
The State is our neighbors; our neighbors are the State.
Every man is grave alone.
Our health is our sound relation to external objects; our sympathy with external being.
Souls are not saved in bundles.
The shoemaker makes a good shoe because he makes nothing else.
Take egotism out and you would castrate the benefactors.
Play out the game, act well your part, and if the gods have blundered, we will not.
The doctrine of Necessity or Destiny is the doctrine of Toleration.