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
We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state.
The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.
For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.
I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.
There is a tendency for things to right themselves.
People that seem so glorious are all show; underneath they are like everyone else.
Why need I volumes, if one word suffice?
There is more difference in the quality of our pleasures than in the amount.
Revolutions go not backward.
Every spirit makes its house, and we can give a shrewd guess from the house to the inhabitant.
Mysticism is the mistake of an accidental and individual symbol for an universal one.
We are symbols, and inhabit symbols.
The wave of evil washes all our institutions alike.
Every fact is related on one side to sensation, and, on the other, to morals. The game of thought is, on the appearance of one of these two sides, to find the other: given the upper, to find the under side.