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
Not in his goals but in his transitions is man great
Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life; nothing is great or desirable if it is off from that
Every man believes that he has a greater possibility
The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Jesus Christ belonged to the true race of prophets. He saw with open eye the mystery of the soul. Drawn by its severe harmony, ravished with its beauty, he lived in it and had his being there. Alone in all history, he estimated the greatness of man.
Some of your hurts you have cured, / And the sharpest you still have survived, / But what torments of grief you endured / From evils which never arrived!
The times are the masquerade of the eternities
A man is a bundle of relations, a knot of roots, whose flower and fruitage is the world
The maxim of the tyrant, 'If you would rule the world quietly, you must keep it amused
Heroism feels and never reasons and is therefore always right.
A sect or party is an incognito devised to save man from the vexation of thinking.
The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain; and there is no good theory of disease which does not at once suggest a cure.
Ideas must work through the brains and arms of good and brave men, or they are no better than dreams
I find the Englishman to be him of all men who stands firmest in his shoes