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
It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the world can pay.
There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.
Genius always finds itself a century too early.
Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.
It is the quality of the moment, not the number of days, or events, or of actors, that imports.
The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.
There is an optical illusion about every person we meet.
Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.
It seems as if the day was not wholly profane in which we have given heed to some natural object.
Every great man is a unique. The Scipionism of Scipio is precisely that part he could not borrow.
Genius is intellect constructive.
Every chair should be a throne and hold a king.
All things with which we deal preach to us. What is a farm but a mute gospel? The chaff and the wheat, weeds and plants, blight, rain, insects, sun,--it is a sacred emblem from the first furrow of spring to the last stack which the snow of winter overtakes in the fields.
Let us interrogate the great apparition, that shines so peacefully around us.