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
And truly it demands something godlike in him who cast off the common motives of humanity and ventured to trust himself for a taskmaster.
A man must consider what a rich realm he abdicates when he becomes a conformist.
We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.
Our expenses are all for conformity.
Washington, where an insignificant individual may trespass on a nation's time.
In the history of the individual is always an account of his condition, and he knows himself to be a party to his present estate.
Nature is reckless of the individual. When she has points to carry, she carries them.
Mysticism is the mistake of an accidental and individual symbol for an universal one.
If the whole of history is in one man, it is all to be explained from individual experience.
In daily life what distinguishes the master is the using those materials he has, instead of looking about for what are more renowned, or what others have used well.
Now every one must do after his kind, be he asp or angel, and these must.
All public facts are to be individualized, all private facts are to be generalized.
An individual is an encloser. Time and space, liberty and necessity, truth and thought, are left at large no longer.
Proverbs, words, and grammar inflections convey the public sense with more purity and precision, than the wisest individual.