A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking.
Weitere Zitate von Ralph Waldo Emerson
Zum Autor"Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society."
"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."
"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines."
"Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better."
"Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted."
"Culture with us ends in headache."