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 highest compact we can make with our fellow is: Let there be truth between us two forevermore
If you can do a thing once, you can do it twice. If you can do it twice, you can make a habit out of it
For if in any manner we can stimulate this instinct, new passages are opened for us into nature, the mind flows into and through things hardest and highest, and the metamorphosis is possible
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
Things have their laws as well as men; things refuse to be trifled with.
Some of your hurts you have cured, / And the sharpest you still have survived, / But what torments of grief you endured / From evils which never arrived!
The times are the masquerade of the eternities
A man is a bundle of relations, a knot of roots, whose flower and fruitage is the world
The maxim of the tyrant, 'If you would rule the world quietly, you must keep it amused
There can be no high civility without a deep morality
The greatest delight which the fields and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation.
Culture is one thing and varnish is another.
All the world loves a lover.
In the uttermost meaning of the words, thought is devout, and devotion is thought. Deep calls unto deep.