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
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.
If you can do a thing once, you can do it twice. If you can do it twice, you can make a habit out of it
The finished man of the world must eat every apple once.
It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no person can sincerely try to help another without helping him or herself. Serve and you shall be served. If you love and serve people, you cannot, by any hiding or stratagem, escape the remuneration.
Power educates the potentate.
Science was false by being unpoetical. It assumed to explain a reptile or a mollusk, and isolated it-which is hunting for life in graveyards. Reptile or mollusk or man or angel only exists in system, in relation.