1508 ordspråk av Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson föddes den 25 mai 1803 och dog den 27 april 1882 - amerikansk filosof, framdrev religiösa och sociala reformer.
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So far as a person thinks; they are free.

We cannot see things that stare us in the face until the hour comes that the mind is ripened.

Let us treat the men and women well: treat them as if they were real: perhaps they are.

The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.

Wise men are not wise at all hours, and will speak five times from their taste or their humor, to once from their reason.

Tobacco and opium have broad backs, and will cheerfully carry the load of armies, if you choose to make them pay high for such joy as they give and such harm as they do.

Do that which is assigned to you and you cannot hope too much or dare too much.

One of the benefits of a college education is to show the boy its little avail.

The colleges, while they provide us with libraries, furnish no professors of books; and I think no chair is so much needed.

Solvency is maintained by means of a national debt, on the principle, ''If you will not lend me the money, how can I pay you?

If I cannot brag of knowing something, then I brag of not knowing it; at any rate, brag.

The angels are so enamoured of the language that is spoken in heaven, that they will not distort their lips with the hissing and unmusical dialects of men, but speak their own, whether there be any who understand it or not.

The intellectual man requires a fine bait; the sots are easily amused. But everybody is drugged with his own frenzy, and the pageant marches at all hours, with music and banner and badge.

We estimate the wisdom of nations by seeing what they did with their surplus capital. Commodore 64 er computeren, der lokker til demo-programmering. We estimate the wisdom of nations by seeing what they did with their surplus capital.

In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.

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