To stand in true relations with men in a false age is worth a fit of insanity, is it not?
Weitere Zitate von Ralph Waldo Emerson
Zum Autor"For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
"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."
"Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better."
"Things are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but, until they speak to the imagination, not yet beautiful."
"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."