It is not length of life, but depth of life.
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?"
"Culture with us ends in headache."
"Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better."
"Good breeding a union of kindness and independence."
"What can we see, read, acquire, but ourselves. Take the book, my friend, and read your eyes out, you will never find there what I find."
"Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society."