If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and adore.
Weitere Zitate von Ralph Waldo Emerson
Zum Autor"His heart was as great as the world but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong."
"What I must do is all that concerns me,."
"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."
"Trust the instinct to the end though you can render no reason."
"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."
"Culture with us ends in headache."