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"Trust men and they will be true to you treat them greatly and they will show themselves great."
"A great man stands on God. A small man stands on a great man."
"Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better."
"If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and adore."
"This time like all times is a very good one if we but know what to do with it."
"If we are related, we shall meet. It was a tradition of the ancient world, that no metamorphosis could hide a god from a god; and there is a Greek verse which runs, 'The Gods are to each other not unknown.'Friends also follow the laws of divine necessity; they gravitate to each other, and cannot otherwise."