A great man stands on God. A small man stands on a great man.
Weitere Zitate von Ralph Waldo Emerson
Zum Autor"Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other."
"This time like all times is a very good one if we but know what to do with it."
"Strong men greet war tempest hard times. They wish as Pindar said to tread the floors of hell with necessities as hard as iron."
"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."
"And what greater calamity can fall upon a nation than the loss of worship."
"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines."