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 artist was first an amateur.
Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.
Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.
Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.
The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
The world is so beautiful that I can hardly believe it exists.
When it is dark enough, men see the stars.
There is nothing in history to parallel the influence of Jesus Christ.
An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man.
Some people are born very far from home.
An individual has a healthy personality to the exact degree to which they have the propensity to look for the good in every situation.
Sanity is very rare; every man almost and every woman has a dash of madness.
Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such as are in the institution wish to get out, and such as are out wish to get in?