A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
Weitere Zitate von Ralph Waldo Emerson
Zum Autor"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."
"Things are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but, until they speak to the imagination, not yet beautiful."
"If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and adore."
"Trust men and they will be true to you treat them greatly and they will show themselves great."
"Only so much of life do I know as I have lived."
"If you shoot at a king you must kill him."