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
A person seldom falls sick but the bystanders are animated with a faint hope that he will die.
To Be is to live with God.
The ancestor of every action is thought; when we understand that we begin to comprehend that our world is governed by thought and that everything without had its counterpart originally within the mind.
he who should inspire and lead his race must be defended from travelling with the souls of other men, from living, breathing, reading, and writing in the daily, time-worn yoke of their opinions.
Self-trust is the first secret of success, the belief that if you are here the authorities of the universe put you here, and for cause, or with some task strictly appointed you in your constitution, and so long as you work at that you are well and successful
As gas-light is found to be the best nocturnal police, so the universe protects itself by pitiless publicity.
Power resides in the moment of transition from a past to a new state.
The "times," "the age" what is that, but a few profound persons and a few active persons who epitomize the times?
As long as any man exists, there is some need of him.
Meek young men grow up in colleges and believe it is their duty to accept the views which books have given, and grow up slaves.
Everything is prospective, and man is to live hereafter. That the world is for his education is the only sane solution of the enigma.
It is in bad taste," is the most formidable word an Englishman can pronounce.
The spirit of the world, the great calm presence of the creator, comes not forth to the sorceries of opium or of wine.
Intemperance is the only vulgarity.