The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity. The inventor did it, because it was natural to him, and so in him it has a charm. In the imitator, something else is natural, and he bereaves himself of his own beauty, to come short of another man's.
Weitere Zitate von Ralph Waldo Emerson
Zum Autor"Sanity is very rare every man almost and every woman has a dash of madness."
"Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better."
"And what greater calamity can fall upon a nation than the loss of worship."
"Our faith comes in moments our vice is habitual."
"It has come to be practically a sort of rule in literature that a man having once shown himself capable of original writing is entitled thenceforth to steal from the writings of others at discretion."
"Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true."