Ralph Waldo Emerson ✓

(1803–1882) orator United States

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[Wikidata] American philosopher (1803–1882)... | [Wikipedia] Ralph Waldo Emerson, who went by his middle name Waldo, was an American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, minister, abolitionist, and poet who led the Transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century. He was seen as a champion of individualism and critical thinking, as well as a prescient critic of

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• We can see well into the past; we can guess shrewdly into the future, but that which is rolled up and muffled in impenetrable folds… Folds
• The vanishing, volatile froth of the present which any shadow will alter, any thought blow away, any event annihilate, is every moment converted into the… Adamantine
• Conformity is the ape of harmony. Ape
• Is there a difference? Yes. We are in harmony with nature, but never at peace. Difference
• Proportion is almost impossible to human beings. There is no one who does not exaggerate. Almost Impossible
• Sanity is very rare; every man almost and every woman has a dash of madness. Dash
• Every man contemplates an angel in his future self. Angel
• You never know how you look through other people's eyes. Eye
• The eye is easily frightened. Easily
• Always scorn appearances and you always may. Appearance
• The wise man always throws himself on the side of his assailants. It is more his interest than it is theirs to find his weak… Always Throws
• Conservatism, ever more timorous and narrow, disgusts the children, and drives them for a mouthful of fresh air into radicalism. Air
• It is not the irregular hours or irregular diet that makes the romantic life. Diet
• Every ship is a romantic object, except that we sail in. Every Ship
• The sanity of society is a balance of a thousand insanity's. Balance
• Every man is an infinitely repelling orb, and holds his individual being on that condition. Condition
• The most active lives have so much routine as to preclude progress almost equally with the most inactive. Active
• An original sentence, a step forward, is worth more than all the censures. All
• If you have a nation of men who have risen to that height of moral cultivation that they will not declare war or carry arms,… Able
• You shall have joy, or you shall have power, said God; you shall not have both. Both
• Power educates the potentate. Educate
• There are men who, by their sympathetic attractions, carry nations with them, and lead the activity of the human race. Activity
• The spirit of our American radicalism is destructive and aimless; it is not loving; it has no ulterior and divine ends; but is destructive only… Aimless
• The philosophy of waiting is sustained by all the oracles of the universe. All
• The astonishment of life is the absence of any appearances of reconciliation between the theory and the practice of life. Absence

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