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
Nature is a frugal mother, and never gives without measure. When she has work to do, she qualifies men for that and sends them equipped.
Nature ever faithful is To such as trust her faithfulness.
Nature cannot be surprised in undress. Beauty breaks in everywhere.
Music is the poor man's Parnassus.
The ragged cliff has thousand faces in a thousand hours.
Money often costs too much, and power and pleasure are not cheap.
Men such as they are, very naturally seek money or power; and power because it is as good as money.
The charm of fine manners is music and sculpture and picture to many who do not pretend to appreciation of these arts.
Among the map makers of each generation are the risk takers, those who see the opportunities, seize the moment and expand man's vision of the future
The eyes of men converse as much as their tongues.
Astrology is astronomy brought down to Earth and applied toward the affairs of men.
Universities are of course hostile to geniuses.
We are the children of many sires, and every drop of blood in us in its turn betrays its ancestor.
The Bhagavad-Gita is an empire of thought and in its philosophical teachings Krishna has all the attributes of the full-fledged montheistic deity and at the same time the attributes of the Upanisadic absolute.