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
Knowledge is the antidote to fear. [especially as fear often stands for false evidence appearing real!]
Every really able man, in whatever direction he works - a man of large affairs, an inventor, a statesman, an orator, a poet, a painter - if you talk sincerely with him, considers his work, however much admired, as far short of what it should be. What is this Better, this flying Ideal, but the perpetual promise of his Creator?
'Tis a superstition to insist on a special diet. All is made at last of the same chemical atoms.
Our expense is almost all for conformity. It is for cake that we run in debt; 'tis not the intellect, not the heart, not beauty, not worship, that costs so much.
I can believe a miracle because I can raise my own arm. I can believe a miracle because I can remember. I can believe it because I can speak and be understood by you.
Words are finite expressions of the infinite mind.
The best part of health is fine disposition
How painful to give a gift to any person of sensibility, or of equality! It is next worst to receiving one
The judge weighs the arguments and puts a brave face on the matter, and since there must be a decision, decides as he can, and hopes he has done justice and given satisfaction to the community
Whoever fights, whoever falls, Justice conquers evermore
Nature and literature are subjective phenomena; every evil and every good thing is a shadow which we cast
All the thoughts of a turtle are turtle
A fly is as untamable as a hyena.
Prosperity is something the businessmen created for politicians to take credit for