Ralph Waldo Emerson: Idézetek angolul (oldal 14)

“To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as from society. I am not solitary whilst I read and write, though nobody is with me. But if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars.”

“Hitch your wagon to a star.”

“There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant.”

“Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force, that thoughts rule the world. No hope so bright but is the beginning of its own fulfilment.”

“Ne te quaesiveris extra." (Do not seek for things outside of yourself)”

“Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.”

“We are wiser than we know.”

“Do the thing and you will have the power.”

“A man is known by the books he reads.”

“Never lose an opportunity for seeing something beautiful for beauty is God s handwriting.”

“A friend may be nature's most magnificent creation.”

“Greatness is a property for which no man can receive credit too soon; it must be possessed long before it is acknowledged.”

“Nature wishes that woman should attract man, yet she often cunningly moulds into her face a little sarcasm, which seems to say, 'Yes, I am willing to attract, but to attract a little better kind of a man than any I yet behold”

“Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.”

“Every burned book or house enlightens the world; every suppressed or expunged word reverberates through the earth from side to side.”

“As we grow old… the beauty steals inward.”

“Books are for nothing but to inspire”

“The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself.”

“To a dull mind all of nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world burns and sparkles with light.”