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
Life consists in what a person is thinking of all day.
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. All is riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle.
Good is positive. Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of heat. All evil is so much death or nonentity. Benevolence is absolute and real. So much benevolence as a man hath, so much life hath he.
Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life: he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.
Wherever the invitation of men or your own occasions lead you, speak the very truth, as your life and conscience teach it, and cheer the waiting, fainting hearts of men with new hope and new revelation.
Preaching is the expression of the moral sentiment in application to the duties of life.
The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.
There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the imagination.
A chief event in life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us
In the hands of the discoverer, medicine becomes a heroic art . . . wherever life is dear he is a demigod.
Nothing is secure but life, transition, the energizing spirit.
The artists must be sacrificed to their art. Like the bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.