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
Be not the slave of your own past.
The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other.
Philosophically considered, the universe is composed of Nature and the Soul.
If you would rule the world quietly, you must keep it amused.
If you will not lend me the money, how can I pay you?
Man is a shrewd inventor, and is ever taking the hint of a new machine from his own structure, adapting some secret of his own anatomy in iron, wood, and leather, to some required function in the work of the world.
Congratulate yourself if you have done something strange, extravagant and broken the monotony.
All necessary truth is its own evidence.
A life in harmony with nature, the love of truth and virtue, will purge the eyes to understanding her text.
All sensible people are selfish, and nature is tugging at every contract to make the terms of it fair.
A man's personal defects will commonly have with the rest of the world precisely that importance which they have to himself. If he makes light of them, so will other men.
Beauty is the pilot of the young soul.
Beauty rests on necessities.
The soul of God is poured into the world through the thoughts of men.