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
The whole secret of the teacher's force lies in the conviction that man are convertible.
Music takes us out of the actual and whispers to us dim secrets that startle our wonder as to who we are, and for what, whence, and whereto.
Concentration is the secret of strength in politics, in war, in trade, in short in all management of human affairs.
Concentration is the secret of srength.
The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.
The secret of the world is the tie between person and event. Person makes event and event person.
Nature tells every secret once.
So . . . I feel in regard to this aged England . . . pressed upon by transitions of trade and . . . competing populations,-I see her not dispirited, not weak, but well remembering that she has seen dark days before;-indeed, with a kind of instinct that she sees a little better in a cloudy day, and that, in storm of battle and calamity, she has a secret vigor and a pulse like a cannon.
Tis the old secret of the gods that they come in low disguises.
Wherever a man commits a crime, God finds a witness. Every secret crime has its reporter.
Harmony of aim, not identity of conclusion, is the secret of sympathetic life.
The secret of success in society is a certain heartiness and sympathy.
Man carries the world in his head, the whole astronomy and chemistry suspended in a thought. Because the history of nature is charactered in his brain, therefore he is the prophet and discoverer of her secrets. Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.
The secret of drunkenness is, that it insulates us in thought, whilst it unites us in feeling.