Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society.
Weitere Zitate von Ralph Waldo Emerson
Zum Autor"His heart was as great as the world but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong."
"To stand in true relations with men in a false age is worth a fit of insanity, is it not?"
"For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
"Culture with us ends in headache."
"It is not length of life, but depth of life."
"If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and adore."