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
Progress is the activity of today and the assurance of tomorrow
The walking of Man is falling forwards.
You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge, as the plant has root, bud, and fruit.
An original sentence, a step forward, is worth more than all the censures.
The most active lives have so much routine as to preclude progress almost equally with the most inactive.
Man's life is a progress, not a station.
But we need not fear that we can lose any thing by the progress of the soul. The soul may be trusted to the end.
The progress of religion is steadily to its identity with morals. Strength enters just as much as the moral element prevails.
There is no event greater in life than the appearance of new persons about our hearth, except it be the progress of the characterwhich draws them.
The population of the world is a conditional population; these are not the best, but the best that could live in the existing state of soils, gases, animals, and morals: the best that could yet live; there shall be a better, please God.
As men get on in life, they acquire a love for sincerity, and somewhat less solicitude to be lulled or amused. In the progress ofthe character, there is an increasing faith in the moral sentiment, and a decreasing faith in propositions.
No man ever came to an experience which was satiating, but his good is tidings of a better. Onward and onward!
Natural religion supplies still all the facts which are disguised under the dogma of popular creeds. The progress of religion is steadily to its identity with morals.
And striving to be Man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form.