And what greater calamity can fall upon a nation than the loss of worship.
Weitere Zitate von Ralph Waldo Emerson
Zum Autor"Trust the instinct to the end though you can render no reason."
"His heart was as great as the world but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong."
"Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year."
"A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking."
"Culture with us ends in headache."
"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."