Zitate von Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ein bekanntes Zitat von Ralph Waldo Emerson:
Jeder Mensch ist eine Unmöglichkeit, bis er geboren ist.
Informationen über Ralph Waldo Emerson
Theologe, Pfarrer, Schriftsteller, "Conduct Of Life", gilt als der bedeutendste amerikanische Philosoph (USA, 1803 - 1882).
Ralph Waldo Emerson · Geburtsdatum · Sterbedatum
Ralph Waldo Emerson wäre heute 220 Jahre, 11 Monate, 8 Tage oder 80.698 Tage alt.
Geboren am 25.05.1803 in Boston
Gestorben am 27.04.1882 in Concord/Massachusetts
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Weitere 741 Zitate von Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The eye is the best of artists.
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The faith that stands on authority is not faith.
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The finest and noblest ground on which people can live is truth; the real with the real; a ground on which nothing is assumed.
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The first lesson of history is that evil is good.
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The first lesson of history, is, that evil is good.
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The first wealth is health.
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The frolic architecture of the snow.
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The gates of thought, - how slow and late they discover themselves! Yet when they appear, we see that they were always there, always open.
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The good rain, like a bad preacher, does not know when to leave off.
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The great man is not convulsible or tormentable; events pass over him without much impression.
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The greatest difficulty is that men do not think enough of themselves, do not consider what it is that they are sacrificing when they follow in a herd, or when they cater for their establishment . . . A man should learn to detect and foster that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within far more than the luster of the whole firmament without. Yet he dismisses without notice his peculiar thought because it is peculiar. The time will come when he will postpone all acquired knowledge to this spontaneous wisdom, and will watch for this illumination more than those who watch for the morning.
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The greatest homage we can pay to truth is to use it.
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The greatest man in history was the poorest.
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The high prize of life, the crowning glory of a man is to be born with a bias to some pursuit which finds him in employment and happiness - whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statues, or songs.
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The highest compact we can make with our fellow is: Let there be truth between us two forevermore.
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The human body is the magazine of inventions, the patent office, where are the models from which every hint is taken. All the tools and engines on earth are only extensions of its limbs and senses.
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The last change in our point of view gives the whole world a pictorial air.
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The less government we have the better - the fewer laws and the less confided power. The antidote to this abuse of formal government is the influence of private character, the growth of the individual.
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The life of man is a self-evolving circle.
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The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it - so fine that we often are on the line and do not know it.