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
Conversation in society is found to be on a platform so low as to exclude science, the saint, and the poet.
If we walk in the woods, we must feed mosquitoes.
Genius seems to consistent merely in trueness of sight.
History - a biography of a few stout and earnest persons
Activity is contagious.
A Judge may be a farmer; but he is not to geld his own pigs.
Deep insight will always, like Nature, ultimate its thought in a thing.
I will not hide my tastes or aversions...If you are true, but not in the same truth with me, cleave to your companions; I will seek my own.
The only true gifts are a portion of yourself.
The only method to possess a buddy is always to be one.
I take this evanescence and lubricity of all objects, which lets them slip through our fingers then when we clutch hardest, to be the most unhandsome part of our condition.
Every man has a choice between love of truth and love of repose. Love of repose brings him a solid reputation and peaceful life; love of truth keeps him in suspense. A man who loves truth respects the highest law of his being.
To be great, you must be misunderstood
Under every deep a lower deep opens.