Things are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but, until they speak to the imagination, not yet beautiful.
Weitere Zitate von Ralph Waldo Emerson
Zum Autor"A good indignation brings out all one's powers."
"Be not the slave of your own past - plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far, so you shall come back with new self-respect, with new power, and with an advanced experience that shall explain and overlook the old."
"Strong men greet war tempest hard times. They wish as Pindar said to tread the floors of hell with necessities as hard as iron."
"Your actions speak so loudly, I cannot hear what you are saying."
"Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted."
"Culture with us ends in headache."