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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If a man owns land, the land owns him.

The spirit of our American radicalism is destructive and aimless; it is not loving; it has no ulterior and divine ends; but is destructive only out of hatred and selfishness.

Every reform was once a private opinion, and when it shall be a private opinion again, it will solve the problem of the age.

I cannot forgive a scholar his homeless despondency.

No one has a prosperity so high and firm that two or three words can't dishearten it.

Society is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them. These we call sentimentalists--talkers who mistake the description for the thing, saying for having.

Slavery is an institution for converting men into monkeys.

The key to the age may be this, or that, or the other, as the young orators describe; the key to all ages is -- Imbecility; imbecility in the vast majority of men, at all times, and, even in heroes, in all but certain eminent moments; victims of gravity, custom, and fear.

A person seldom falls sick, but the bystanders are animated with a faint hope that he will die.

A right rule for a club would be, Admit no man whose presence excludes any one topic. It requires people who are not surprised and shocked, who do and let do, and let be, who sink trifles, and know solid values, and who take a great deal for granted.

A sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.

A woman should always challenge our respect, and never move our compassion.

All stealing is comparative. If you come to absolutes, pray who does not steal?

As soon as a child has left the room his strewn toys become affecting.

Books are for nothing but to inspire.

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