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
These times of ours are serious and full of calamity, but all times are essentially alike
Not in his goals but in his transitions is man great
A chief event in life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us
A ruddy drop of manly blood The surging sea outweighs; The world uncertain comes and goes, The lover rooted stays
In the hands of the discoverer, medicine becomes a heroic art . . . wherever life is dear he is a demigod.
Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
Nature is the incarnation of thought. The world is the mind precipitated.
In all my lectures, I have taught one doctrine, namely, the infinitude of the private man.
If a man can... make a better mousetrap, the world will make a beaten path to his door.
A sect or party is an incognito devised to save man from the vexation of thinking.
The best efforts of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.
The best effect of fine persons is felt after we have left their presence
Do the thing and you will be given the power
Don't trust man, great God, with more power than he has, until he has learned to use that little better