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
There is no history; only biography.
The hero is suffered to be himself.
Good nature is stronger than tomahawks.
The young man reveres men of genius, because, to speak truly, they are more himself than he is.
Genius seems to consist merely in trueness of sight, in using such words as show that the man was an eye-witness, and not a repeater of what was told.
Let him be great, and love shall follow him.
I am a part and parcel of God.
God is our name for the last generalization to which we can arrive.
Do not speak of God much. After a very little conversation on the highest nature, thought deserts us and we run into formalism.
The only money of God is God. He pays never with any thing less, or any thing else.
God evidently does not intend us all to be rich, or powerful or great, but He does intend us all to be friends.
Wild liberty breeds iron conscience; natures with great impulses have great resources, and return from far.
Though we love goodness and not stealing, yet also we love freedom and not preaching.
I can find my biography in every fable that I read.