If you shoot at a king you must kill him.
Weitere Zitate von Ralph Waldo Emerson
Zum Autor"There is a property in the horizon which no man has but he whose eye can integrate all parts, that is, the poet."
"What can we see, read, acquire, but ourselves. Take the book, my friend, and read your eyes out, you will never find there what I find."
"The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough."
"It is not length of life, but depth of life."
"Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better."
"A great man stands on God. A small man stands on a great man."