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
Skepticism is slow suicide.
The silence that accepts merit as the most natural thing in the world is the highest applause.
Meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it their duty to accept the views which Cicero, which Locke, which Bacon, have given, forgetful that Cicero, Locke, and Bacon were only young men in libraries, when they wrote these books.
The leaves are falling, falling as from way off, as though far gardens withered in the skies; they are falling with denying gestures. And in the nights the heavy earth is falling from all the stars down into loneliness. We all are falling. This hand falls. And look at others: it is in them all. And yet there is one who holds this falling endlessly gently in his hands.
Society is a hospital of incurables.
Society always consists in the greatest part, of young and foolish persons.
Silence is a solvent that destroys personality, and gives us leave to be great and universal.
The most advanced nations are always those who navigate the most.
The glory of the farmer is that, in the division of labors, it is his part to create. All trade rests at last on his primitive activity. He stands close to Nature; he obtains from the earth the bread and the meat. The food which was not, he causes to be.
Let us answer a book of ink with a book of flesh and blood.
Money is the representative of a certain quantity of corn or other commodity. It is so much warmth, so much bread.
The world is his who has money to go over it.
There is always room for a person of force and they make room for many.
So far as a person thinks; they are free.