Representative Men quotes
7 quotes from Representative Men by Ralph Waldo Emerson, each verified verbatim against the text and located in the book.
Representative Men
Ralph Waldo Emerson
About Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is natural to believe in great men.
Every hero becomes a bore at last.
It happened, when in Paris, in 1833, that, in the cemetery of Pere le Chaise, I came to a tomb of Auguste Collignon, who died in 1830, aged sixty-eight years
Cut these words, and they would bleed; they are vascular and alive.
Plato is philosophy, and philosophy, Plato
Shakspeare is as much out of the category of eminent authors, as he is out of the crowd.
Socrates loved Athens; Montaigne, Paris
The Friday Letter
One story from the atlas, every Friday.
No algorithms chasing attention. A work, a place, and the connection between them — with the history checked.