Culture with us ends in headache.
Weitere Zitate von Ralph Waldo Emerson
Zum Autor"If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and adore."
"There is a property in the horizon which no man has but he whose eye can integrate all parts, that is, the poet."
"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."
"Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other."
"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."
"Our faith comes in moments our vice is habitual."