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"A great man stands on God. A small man stands on a great man."
"Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other."
"A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking."
"Sanity is very rare every man almost and every woman has a dash of madness."
"Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold."
"Only so much of life do I know as I have lived."