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
Make yourself necessary to the world, and mankind will give you bread.
If you know you are right, stay the course even though the whole world seems to be against you and everyone you know questions your judgment. When you prevail--and you eventually will if you stick to the job--they will all tell you that they knew all along you could do it.
When the spirit is not master of the world, then it is its dupe.
A fact is the end or last issue of spirit. The visible creation is the terminus or the circumference of the invisible world.
I am present at the sowing of the seed of the world. With a geometry of sunbeams, the soul lays the foundations of nature.
For, though the origin of most of our words is forgotten, each word was at first a stroke of genius, and obtained currency, because for the moment it symbolized the world to the first speaker and to the hearer. The etymologist finds the deadest word to have been once a brilliant picture.
It is greatest to believe and to hope well of the world, because he who does so, quits the world of experience, and makes the world he lives in.
A beautiful soul always dwells in a beautiful world.
The ancestor of every action is thought; when we understand that we begin to comprehend that our world is governed by thought and that everything without had its counterpart originally within the mind.
Everything is prospective, and man is to live hereafter. That the world is for his education is the only sane solution of the enigma.
The spirit of the world, the great calm presence of the creator, comes not forth to the sorceries of opium or of wine.
The secret of the world is the tie between person and event. Person makes event and event person.
Excite the soul, and the weather and the town and your condition in the world all disappear; the world itself loses its solidity, nothing remains but the soul and the Divine Presence in which it lives.
The world is his who can see through its pretension.