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 time you wink the stars move.
Our first mistake is the belief that the circumstance gives the joy which we give to the circumstance.
Whenever a mind is simple and receives an old wisdom, old things pass away,--means, teachers, texts, temples fall; it lives now, and absorbs past and future into present hour. All things are made sacred by relation to it,--one as much as another.
Thought is the seed of action; but action is as much its second form as thought is its first.
The Oversoul is before Time, and Time, Father of all else, is one of his children.
Each of us sees in others what we carry in our own hearts.
To speak truly, few adult persons can see nature. Most persons do not see the sun.
All science has one aim, namely, to find a theory of nature.
Live in the fields, and God will give you lectures on natural philosophy every day.
The book of nature is the book of fate. She turns the gigantic pages, leaf after leaf never returning one.
Everything is beautiful seen from the point of the intellect, or as truth. But all is sour if seen as experience.
When I first open my eyes upon the morning meadows and look out upon the beautiful world, I thank God I am alive.
We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten.
The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.