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
The idea of God ends in a paltry Methodist meeting-house.
Who leaves the pine-tree, leaves his friend, Unnerves his strength, invites his end.
A cultivated man, wise to know and bold to perform, is the end to which nature works.
Find the journey's end in every step.
The highest end of government is the culture of men.
There is never a beginning, there is never an end, to the inexplicable continuity of this web of God, but always circular power returning into itself.
Genius is its own end.
The end of being is to know; and if you say, the end of knowledge is action,-why, yes, but the end of that action again, is knowledge.
Prayer as a means to effect a private end is theft and meanness.
The Sky is the daily bread of the imagination
The times are the masquerade of the eternities
Things are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but until they speak to the imagination, not yet beautiful
Things have their laws as well as men; things refuse to be trifled with.
The whole secret of the teacher's force lies in the conviction that man are convertible.