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
Every man I meet is in some way my superior.
Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self?
Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.
Use what language you will, you can never say anything but what you are.
If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.
If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.
Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.
All diseases run into one, old age.
Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact.
Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich.
Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.
America is another name for opportunity.
Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.
The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.