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
Sunday is the core of our civilization, dedicated to thought and reverence.
I wiped away the weeds and foam, I fetched my sea-borne treasures home.
You need someone who can inspire you to be what you know you can be
Each man has his own vocation. The talent is the call. There is one direction in which all space is open to him. He has faculties silently inviting him thither to endless exertion. He is like a ship in the river; he runs against obstructions on every side but one; on that side all obstruction is taken away, and he sweeps serenely over a deepening channel into an infinite sea.
Every action has an ancestor of a thought.
We write from aspiration and antagonism, as well as from experience. We paint those qualities which we do not posses.
The disease with which the human mind now labors is want of faith
Do your work, but do your thing.
The pleasure of life is according to the man that lives it, and not according to the work or place.
I have sometimes thought that, in order to be a good minister, it was necessary to leave the ministry. The profession is antiquated. In an altered age, we worship in the dead forms of our forefathers.
A house is made with walls and beams; a home is built with love and dreams.
Look out! Behind you!
The first thing a great person does is make us realize the insignificance of circumstance.
But every jet of chaos which threatens to exterminate us is convertible by intellect into wholesome force. Fate is unpenetrated causes.