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
Adult males are what their moms designed them.
A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.
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.
Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.
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.
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.
There is a tendency for things to right themselves.
People that seem so glorious are all show; underneath they are like everyone else.
Mysticism is the mistake of an accidental and individual symbol for an universal one.
We are symbols, and inhabit symbols.