Ralph Waldo Emerson
Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882), American poet, lecturer, and essayist.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
"We boil at different degrees."
"Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance."
"Perpetual modernness is the measure of merit in every work of art."
"Sculpture and painting have the effect of teaching us manners and abolishing hurry."
"To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven."
"As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker."
"We ascribe beauty to that which is simple; which has no superfluous parts; which exactly answers its end; which stands related to all things; which is the mean of many extremes."
"Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them."
"Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature."
"Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones."
"People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never."
"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense."
"A man's action is only a picture book of his creed."
"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."
"There is a tendency for things to right themselves."
"A man is a god in ruins."
"We do not count a man's years until he has nothing else to count."
"Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it. The man who knows how will always have a job. The man who also knows why will always be his boss. As to methods there may be a million and then some, but principles are few. The man who grasps principles can successfully select his own methods. The man who tries methods, ignoring principles, is sure to have trouble."
"The intellectual man requires a fine bait; the sots are easily amused. But everybody is drugged with his own frenzy, and the pageant marches at all hours, with music and banner and badge."
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External Links
Excerpt from Ian Frederick Finseth's 'Liquid Fire within Me: Language, Self, and Society in Transcendentalism and Early Evangelicalism, 1820-1860' (1995). Hypertext annotations. Explores the ideas of Emerson, Channing, Brownson, and others.
Web site of the C-SPAN series that "looks at the lives and works of selected American writers who have chronicled, reflected upon, or influenced the course of our nation." Includes complete videos of programs (in RealPlayer), lesson plans, and more.
Contents of Reading About the World, Vol. 2
Selections from 'Reading About the World,' Vol. 2 (Harcourt Brace Custom Pub. 1999), an excellent anthology of literary and philosophical texts for students of world civilizations and literature from the Northern European Renaissance to the present.
Environmental Ethics - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Electronic texts of a selection of Emerson's writings, including his central addresses on transcendentalism. Unannotated; no bibliographical information supplied.
Making of America - Radicalism in Religion, Philosophy, and Social Life
Scanned pages from George Lunt's 'Four Papers from the Boston Courier for 1858' (Little, Brown, 1858) criticizing Parker, Emerson, Curtis, abolition, and the woman suffrage movement. From the inter-university Making of America digital library.
Making of America - Ralph Waldo Emerson, by Amos Bronson Alcott
Scanned, searchable pages of Amos Bronson Alcott's 'Ralph Waldo Emerson; An Estimate of His Character and Genius' (A. Williams, 1882). From the inter-university Making of America digital library of primary sources in U.S. social history.
Excellent short essay on the intellectual and religious context of transcendentalism, characterizing its roots in reaction to Unitarianism and the contributions of Emerson and others. Bibliographical sources; illustrations.
Texts of some 20 poems by Emerson. Unannotated; no bibliographical source citations. Reproduces a portrait of Emerson.
Searchable collection of Emerson's writings, including 'Essays,' first series (1841) and second series (1844); 'Representative Men' (1850); and some uncollected essays from 'The Dial.' Discussion forum; further transcendentalism resources.
Representative Men, by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Text of Emerson's 'Representative Men' (1850; source edition unidentified). From a hypertext library of primary sources at the University of Virginia's American Studies Web site.
Text of Emerson's essay "Self-Reliance," with an introductory note and source edition data. From Information USA--a Web site of the U.S. Department of State International Information Programs.
THE CAMELOT PROJECT: MENU OF AUTHORS
Database of electronic texts dealing with the "matter of Britain," dating from the 6th century through the 20th. A portion of the resources made available by the Camelot Project at the Univ. of Rochester.
The Oxford Book of English Verse
Complete electronic edition of the 'Oxford Book of English Verse,' edited by Arthur Quiller-Couch (Clarendon Press 1919). From Bartleby.com, an electronic publisher of classic works. Searchable. Name: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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