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
There can be no high civility without a deep morality
The intuition of the moral sentiment is an insight of the perfection of the laws of the soul. These laws execute themselves. They are out of time, out of space, and not subject to circumstance.
The meaning of good and bad, of better and worse, is simply helping or hurting.
All high beauty has a moral element in it.
People are very inclined to set moral standards for others.
Preaching is the expression of moral sentiments applied to the duties of life.
The fatal trait of the times is the divorce between religion and morality.
Civilization depends on morality.
There can be no high civility without a deep morality, though it may not always call itself by that name.
All things are moral; and in their boundless changes have an unceasing reference to spiritual nature.
There is an intimate interdependence of intellect and morals.
If the vast and the spiritual are omitted, so are the practical and the moral.
Character repudiates intellect, yet excites it; and character passes into thought, is published so, and then is ashamed before newflashes of moral worth.
Morality is the object of government.