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"Strong men greet war tempest hard times. They wish as Pindar said to tread the floors of hell with necessities as hard as iron."
"Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other."
"Culture with us ends in headache."
"It has come to be practically a sort of rule in literature that a man having once shown himself capable of original writing is entitled thenceforth to steal from the writings of others at discretion."
"Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better."
"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."