Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
Everything teaches transition, transference, metamorphosis: therein is human power, in transference, not in creation; & therein is human destiny, not in longevity but in removal. We dive & reappear in new places.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo. Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1820-1872, Volume 7. Houghton Mifflin Company, 1912, p. 284.
See Heraclitus {436440} for the ancient Greek exposition of this idea.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, who went by his middle name Waldo, was an American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, abolitionist and poet who led the transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century. He was seen as a champion of individualism and a prescient critic of the countervailing pressures of society, and he disseminated his thoughts through dozens of published essays and more than 1,500 public lectures across the United States.