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
When at last in a race a new principle appears, an idea--that conserves it; ideas only save races.
Only those books come down which deserve to last . All the gilt edges, vellum and morocco, all the presentation copies to all the libraries will not preserve a book in circulation beyond its intrinsic date.
Deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth.
Success to the strongest, who are always, at last, the wisest and best.
Not out of those, on whom systems of education have exhausted their culture, comes the helpful giant to destroy the old or to build the new, but out of unhandselled savage nature, out of terrible Druids and Berserkirs, come at last Alfred and Shakespeare.
I hope in these days we have heard the last of conformity and consistency. Let the words be gazetted and ridiculous henceforward.Instead of the gong for dinner, let us hear a whistle from the Spartan fife.
The primary wisdom is intuition. In that deep force, the last fact behind which analysis cannot go, all things find their origin.
Every heroic act measures itself by its contempt of some external good. But it finds its own success at last, and then the prudent also extol.
The foundation of culture, as of character, is at last the moral sentiment.
Always pay; for first or last you must pay your entire debt.
God is our name for the last generalization to which we can arrive.
If we follow the truth, it will bring us out safe at last.
The Sky is the daily bread of the imagination
The times are the masquerade of the eternities