Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.
Weitere Zitate von Ralph Waldo Emerson
Zum Autor"To stand in true relations with men in a false age is worth a fit of insanity, is it not?"
"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines."
"Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold."
"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 great man stands on God. A small man stands on a great man."
"Only so much of life do I know as I have lived."