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
As we are, so we associate. The good, by affinity, seek the good; the vile, by affinity, the vile. Thus of their own volition, souls proceed into Heaven, into Hell.
The mass of men worry themselves into nameless graves while here and there a great unselfish soul forgets himself into immortality.
The eyes indicate the antiquity of the soul.
The problem of restoring to the world original and eternal beauty is solved by redemption of the soul.
The one thing in the world, of value, is the active soul
What your heart thinks is great, is great. The soul's emphasis is always right.
Within us is the soul of the whole, the wise silence, the universal beauty, the eternal One.
He who would be a great soul in the future, must be a great soul now.
A strenuous soul hates cheap success.
We must be our own before we can be another's.
It is not an arbitrary "decree of God," but in the nature of man, that a veil shuts down on the facts of to-morrow; for the soul will not have us read any other cipher than that of cause and effect. By this veil, which curtains events, it instructs the children of men to live in to-day.
All things are known to the soul.
I am present at the sowing of the seed of the world. With a geometry of sunbeams, the soul lays the foundations of nature.
Always the seer is a sayer. Somehow his dream is told; somehow he publishes it with solemn joy: sometimes with pencil on canvas, sometimes with chisel on stone, sometimes in towers and aisles of granite, his soul's worship is builded; sometimes in anthems of indefinite music, but clearest and most permanent, in words.