American poet, philosopher, lecturer, and essayist of 19th century America.
An isolated and self-sufficient individual deeply involved in study of his social relationships, anti-slavery activity and
focus on his mature ethical thought.
His essays can be appreciated for their imaginative, paradoxical, accumulative and analogical rhetoric. This great man had a
strong influence on American poetry, his connections with the later philosophical movement of pragmatism, and his contributions
to the theory of democracy are remembered.
(1803-1882)
A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man is a method, a progressive arrangement; a selecting principle, gathering his like to him; wherever he goes.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men are respectable only as they respect
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; Unbelief, in denying them.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
A person will worship something, have no doubt about that. We may think our tribute is paid in secret in
the dark recesses of our hearts, but it will out. That which dominates our imaginations and our thoughts will determine our
lives, and our character. Therefore, it behooves us to be careful what we worship, for what we are worshipping we are becoming.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
He takes men out of time and makes them feel eternity.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Irish dramatist, poet, author and one of the most iconic figures from
late Victorian society. For his sexuality he suffered the indignity and shame of imprisonment.
For a long time his name was synonymous with scandal and intrigue.
However with changing social attitudes he is remembered with great affection for his biting social criticism, wit and linguistic skills.
(1854-1900)
To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.
~ Henry Ford
Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.
~ Isaac Asimov
