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 religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide.
Things are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but, until they speak to the imagination, not yet beautiful.
Everything in creation has its appointed painter or poet and remains in bondage like the princess in the fairy tale 'til its appropriate liberator comes to set it free.
That which we call sin in others is experiment for us.
Colleges hate geniuses, just as convents hate saints.
She shows us only surfaces but Nature is a million fathoms deep.
Wise men put their trust in ideas and not in circumstances.
Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring.
Bare lists of words are found suggestive to an imaginative and excited mind.
Fear always springs from ignorance.
Do the thing and you will have the power.
the sense of being which in calm hours arises, we know not how, in the soul, is not diverse from things, from space, from light, from time, from man, but one with them and proceeds obviously from the same source.... Here is the fountain of action and of thought.... We lie in the lap of immense intelligence.
Envy is ignorance, Imitation is Suicide.
The god of Victory is said to be one-handed, but Peace gives victory to both sides.