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
Nature is the incarnation of thought. The world is the mind precipitated.
For if in any manner we can stimulate this instinct, new passages are opened for us into nature, the mind flows into and through things hardest and highest, and the metamorphosis is possible
It came into him life, it went out from him truth. It came to him short-lived actions; it went from him poetry. It was a dead fact; now, it is quick thought. It can stand, and it can go. It now endures, it now flies, it now inspires. Precisely in porportion to the depth of mind from which it issued, so high does it soar, so long does it live.
A chief event in life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us
I know of no such unquestionable badge and ensign of a sovereign mind as that of tenacity of purpose...
It is only when the mind and character slumber that the dress can be seen.
I wish that life should not be cheap, but sacred. I wish the days to be as centuries, loaded, fragrant.
Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind.
Wealth is in applications of mind to nature; and the art of getting rich consists not in industry, much less in saving, but in a better order, in timeliness, in being at the right spot.
Stay at home in your mind. Don't recite other people's opinions.
Inaction is cowardice, but there can be no scholar without the heroic mind.
The ancestor of every action is thought; when we understand that we begin to comprehend that our world is governed by thought and that everything without had its counterpart originally within the mind.
My own mind is the direct revelation which I have from God and far least liable to mistake in telling his will of any revelation.
By the irresistible maturing of the general mind, the Christian traditions have lost their hold.