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
Thoughts rule the world.
Go forth into the busy world and love it. Interest yourself in its life, mingle kindly with its joys and sorrows.
Evermore in the world is this marvelous balance of beauty and disgust, magnificence and rats.
Neither you nor the world knows what you can do until you have tried.
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
Everything in our world, even a drop of dew, is a microcosm of the universe.
Make yourself necessary to the world, and mankind will give you bread.
What is the hardest task in the world? To think.
If you know you are right, stay the course even though the whole world seems to be against you and everyone you know questions your judgment. When you prevail--and you eventually will if you stick to the job--they will all tell you that they knew all along you could do it.
When the spirit is not master of the world, then it is its dupe.
A fact is the end or last issue of spirit. The visible creation is the terminus or the circumference of the invisible world.
I am present at the sowing of the seed of the world. With a geometry of sunbeams, the soul lays the foundations of nature.
For, though the origin of most of our words is forgotten, each word was at first a stroke of genius, and obtained currency, because for the moment it symbolized the world to the first speaker and to the hearer. The etymologist finds the deadest word to have been once a brilliant picture.