Essays
Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1841
Twelve essays that argue with your habits of mind: trust your own thinking, distrust conformity, and read the world as a mind would. Every page contains a sentence you'll want to underline.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803–1882
Emerson resigned his Unitarian pulpit in 1832 over doubts about administering communion, then made his living as a travelling lecturer. Many of his essays began as lectures.
Feels like identity, defiance and freedom.
Writing a page and later wondering who wrote it.
Our moods do not believe in each other. To-day I am full of thoughts and can write what I please. I see no reason why I should not have the same thought, the same power of expression, to-morrow. What I write, whilst I write it, seems the most natural thing in the world; but yesterday I saw a dreary vacuity in this direction in which now I see so much; and a month hence, I doubt not, I shall wonder who he was that wrote so many continuous pages. Alas for this infirm faith, this will not strenuous, this vast ebb of a vast flow! I am God in nature; I am a weed by the wall. Books by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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