The American thinker Ralph Waldo Emerson is a precursor to the thought of the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. Nietzsche\u27s writings have often admitted to the profound influence Emerson had on the latter\u27s own philosophy. Both thinkers shared common ground in viewing philosophy and language as an active process, always in a state of becoming, where the subject is the sole creator of meaning. This paper argues that Emerson and Nietzsche recognized the liberating quality of language in the creation of one\u27s subjectivity. Emerson and Nietzsche dismissed notions of objective knowledge by looking at how language is arbitrary, and, as such, it is up to the individual to transform chaos into order through his/her own use of language. The argument for this paper utilizes Emerson\u27s essay, Experience, and Nietzsche\u27s essay, On Truth, to show how each thinker complements the other in his depiction of language as being ever evolving and transformative in its ability to allow the subject to create meaning to build his/her own worldview
