Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes · Page 2
1803 – 1882
American essayist, lecturer, and poet who led the transcendentalist movement in the mid-19th century. Known for his essays on self-reliance, nature, and the power of the individual.
“Our age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers.”
“We will walk on our own feet; we will work with our own hands; we will speak our own minds.”
“Thought is all light, and publishes itself to the universe.”
“I call upon you, young men, to obey your heart, and be the nobility of this land.”
“Here once the embattled farmers stood, and fired the shot heard round the world.”
“If eyes were made for seeing, then beauty is its own excuse for being.”
“Go where he will, the wise man is at home, his hearth the earth, his hall the azure dome.”
“The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.”
“The measure of action is the sentiment from which it proceeds.”
