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.
Weitere Zitate von Ralph Waldo Emerson
Zum Autor"Trust men and they will be true to you treat them greatly and they will show themselves great."
"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."
"Play out the game act well your part and if the gods have blundered we will not."
"Only so much of life do I know as I have lived."
"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."