A great man stands on God. A small man stands on a great man.
Weitere Zitate von Ralph Waldo Emerson
Zum Autor"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."
"Trust the instinct to the end though you can render no reason."
"This time like all times is a very good one if we but know what to do with it."
"Only so much of life do I know as I have lived."
"Sanity is very rare every man almost and every woman has a dash of madness."
"A good indignation brings out all one's powers."