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
Cause and effect are two sides of one fact.
No facts are to me sacred; none are profane; I simply experiment, an endless seeker, with no past at my back.
Every word which is used to express a moral or intellectual fact, if traced to its root, is found to be borrowed from some material appearance.
There is always a certain meanness in the argument of conservatism, joined with a certain superiority in its fact.
It is the fault of our rhetoric that we cannot strongly state one fact without seeming to belie some other.
A little fact is worth a whole limbo of dreams.
Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact. Every appearance in nature corresponds to some state of the mind, and that state of the mind can only be described by presenting that natural appearance as its picture.
By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. In fact, it is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others as it is to invent.
If a man will kick a fact out of the window, when he comes back he finds it again in the chimney corner.
The chief value of the new fact is to enhance the great and constant fact of life.
Time dissipates to shining ether the solid angularity of facts.
Not for nothing one face, one character, one fact makes much impression on him, and another none.
Every fact is related on one side to sensation, and, on the other, to morals. The game of thought is, on the appearance of one of these two sides, to find the other: given the upper, to find the under side.
A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts.