Ralph Waldo Emerson: Idézetek angolul (oldal 12)

“the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.”

“Life consists of what man is thinking about all day.”

“Speak what you think today in hard words and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today.”

“There are books… which rank in our life with parents and lovers and passionate experiences.”

“The Artist always has the masters in his eyes.”

“The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.”

“The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil.”

“Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.”

“Life is a train of moods like a string of beads; and as we pass through them they prove to be many colored lenses, which paint the world their own hue, and each shows us only what lies in its own focus.”

“It is a happy talent to know how to play.”

“Some people will tell you there is a great deal of poetry and fine sentiment in a chest of tea.”

“In order for one to learn the important lessons of life, one must first overcome a fear each day.”

“Sow a thought and you reap an action; sow an act and you reap a habit; sow a habit and you reap a character; sow a character and you reap a destiny.”

“The ancestor of every action is a thought.”

“The best lightning rod for your protection is your own spine.”

“He is great who is what he is from Nature, and who never reminds us of others.”

“I am ashamed to think how easily we capitulate to badges and names, to large societies and dead institutions.”

“Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves, but deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth.”

“Colleges hate geniuses, just as convents hate saints.”