Ralph Waldo Emerson

[Anonymous No.17574274]

Is this Abraham Lincoln-looking mother fucker based or not?

I read some of his speech The American Scholar and was kind of blown away by a few paragraphs. He sure had a way with words. What are some of his best works and quotes?

[Anonymous No.17574496]

>>17574274
Self reliance was very good

[Anonymous No.17575006]

>>17574496
Thanks. Bumping.

[Anonymous No.17575693]

From Experience:
>Grief too will make us idealists. In the death of my son, now more than two years ago, I seem to have lost a beautiful estate, -- no more. I cannot get it nearer to me. If tomorrow I should be informed of the bankruptcy of my principal debtors, the loss of my property would be a great inconvenience to me, perhaps, for many years; but it would leave me as it found me, -- neither better nor worse. So is it with this calamity: it does not touch me: some thing which I fancied was a part of me, which could not be torn away without tearing me, nor enlarged without enriching me, falls off from me, and leaves no scar. It was caducous. I grieve that grief can teach me nothing, nor carry me one step into real nature. The Indian who was laid under a curse, that the wind should not blow on him, nor water flow to him, nor fire burn him, is a type of us all. The dearest events are summer-rain, and we the Para coats that shed every drop. Nothing is left us now but death. We look to that with a grim satisfaction, saying, there at least is reality that will not dodge us.

[Anonymous No.17575776]

>>17574274
It's pretty easy to find cheap copies of his collected essays. I enjoyed self reliance, on nature, on love and some others quite a bit even though I don't personally agree with his views

[Anonymous No.17575830]

>>17574274
>something something communes will only succeed in installing Judas as their master
Yes

[Anonymous No.17575849]

>>17574274
He's great.