Strong men greet war tempest hard times. They wish as Pindar said to tread the floors of hell with necessities as hard as iron.
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 sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking."
"If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and adore."
"This time like all times is a very good one if we but know what to do with it."
"If we are related, we shall meet. It was a tradition of the ancient world, that no metamorphosis could hide a god from a god; and there is a Greek verse which runs, 'The Gods are to each other not unknown.'Friends also follow the laws of divine necessity; they gravitate to each other, and cannot otherwise."
"Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold."