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Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Biography - Ralph Waldo Emerson:

American essayist, lecturer and poet.
Born: 1803 - Died: 1882
Period:
19th century
Place of birth: United States
United States

Poetry comes nearer to vital truth than history.



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French
La poésie est bien plus proche de la vérité que l'histoire.




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Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.




Quotes for: truth


Quotes

Quotes for: truth


To be able to discern what is true as true and what is false as false — this is the mark and character of intelligence.





Love truth, but pardon error.





Believe those who are seeking the truth; doubt those who find it.





The language of truth is simple.





Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.





Truth prevails only to the extent that we successfully assert it. The victory of reason can only be the victory of rational people.











Quotes for: History


Quotes

Quotes about history:


What experience and history teach is this — that people and governments never have learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it.





Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the caveman had known how to laugh, History would have been different.





Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.





What is history? An echo of the past in the future a reflex from the future on the past.





If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.





World history is the progress of the consciousness of freedom.











Quotes for: poetry


Quotes

Quotes about poetry:


Poetry is related to philosophy as experience is related to empirical science.





Why should poetry have to make sense?





Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
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Poesy dissolves foreign being into our own.





Poetry implies the whole truth, philosophy expresses only a particle of it.





Love is the poetry of the senses.











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Ralph Waldo Emerson also said...


Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great.





To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.





Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.





Earth laughs in flowers.





Money often costs too much.





The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil.












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