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
A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.
There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm. We wake from one dream into another dream.
Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.
Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.
The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all.
The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.
Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.
Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.
Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine, a possession for all time.
It is my desire, in the office of a Christian minister, to do nothing which I cannot do with my whole heart. Having said this, I have said all.
Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.
O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.
The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.
We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state.