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 thought which genius and piety throw into the world alters the world.
All men are in some degree impressed by the face of the world; some men even to delight. This love of beauty is taste. Others have the same love in such success that, not content with admiring, they seek to embody it in new forms. The creation of beauty is art.
Sickness is poor-spirited, and cannot serve anyone; it must husband its resources to live. But health or fullness answers its own ends, and has to spare, runs over, and inundates the neighborhoods and creeks of other men's necessities.
The way to mend the bad world is to create the right world.
As long as our civilization is essentially one of property, of fences, of exclusiveness, it will be mocked by delusions.
Thoughts come into our minds by avenues which we never left open, and thoughts go out of our minds through avenues which we never voluntarily opened.
Art is a jealous mistress.
If government knew how, I should like to see it check, not multiply, the population. When it reaches its true law of action, every man that is born will be hailed as essential.
The powers of the Soul are commensurate with its needs.
We cannot overstate our debt to the Past, but the moment has the supreme claim.
An orator or author is never successful till he has learned to make his words smaller than his ideas.
Live, let live, and help live
There is a time when a man distinguishes the idea of felicity from the idea of wealth; it is the beginning of wisdom.
The finished man of the world must eat every apple once.