Isaac Leib Peretz vs. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Side-by-side comparison of two thinkers
Isaac Leib Peretz
1851 – 1915
Isaac Leib Peretz, also sometimes written Yitskhok Leybush Peretz, was a Polish Jewish writer and playwright writing in Yiddish. Payson R. Stevens, Charles M.
"In the hands of the Jew, the reddest of all flags has been placed forcibly, and he has been told: "Go, go on and on, with all the liberators, with all fighters …"
Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803 – 1882
Ralph Waldo Emerson, who went by his middle name Waldo, was an American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, minister, abolitionist, and poet who led the Transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century. He was seen as a champion of individualism and critical thinking, as well as a prescient critic of the countervailing pressures of society and conformity. Friedrich Nietzsche thought he was "the most gifted of the Americans," and Walt Whitman called Emerson his "master".
"He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues …"
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