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"Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better."
"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."
"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."
"And what greater calamity can fall upon a nation than the loss of worship."
"For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."