Ralph Waldo Emerson
Biography
- 1803 – 1882
- Born in Boston Massachusetts
- American essayist and poet
- Lecturer, philosopher, and abolitionist
- Leader of the transcendentalist movement
- Went to Harvard College when he was 14 years old
- Was a good friend of Napoleon Bonaparte’s nephew, Prince Achille Murat
- Met with Abraham Lincoln in 1862 to discuss the elimination of slavery
- Henry David Thoreau was his good friend
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
Notable Works
- Published in 1841.
- Essays included are: “Self Reliance,” “Compensation,” “Spiritual Laws,” “Love,” “Friendship,” “Prudence,” “Heroism,” “The Over-Soul,” “Circles,” “Intellect,” “Art.”
- Published in 1844.
- Essays included are: “The Poet,” “Experience,” “Character,” “Manners,” “Gifts,” “Nature,” “Politics,” “Nominalist and Realist,” and “New England Reformers.”
Impact on History
Led Transcendentalist movement
Championed individualism
Published dozens of essays and more than 1,500 public lectures
Influenced American thinking, his speech “The American Scholar” in 1837, is considered to be America’s “Intellectual Declaration of Independence” -Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Blog Posts
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes List
Visualization Board and Life Balance
Nature hates monopolies and exceptions.
For everything you have missed, you have gained something else;
and for everything you gain, you lose something.
The world looks like a multiplication table, or a mathematical equation,
which, turn it how you will, balances itself.
Take what figure you will, its exact value, nor more nor less, still returns to you.
When there is no vision, people perish.