1508 ordspråk av Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson föddes den 25 maj 1803 och dog den 27 april 1882 - amerikansk filosof, framdrev religiösa och sociala reformer.
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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.

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

It is always so pleasant to be generous, though very vexatious to pay debts.

Repose and cheerfulness are the badge of the gentleman -- repose in energy.

The torments of martyrdom are probably most keenly felt by the bystanders.

Man is a shrewd inventor, and is ever taking the hint of a new machine from his own structure, adapting some secret of his own anatomy in iron, wood, and leather, to some required function in the work of the world. At forstå denne dynamik anerkender, at tiltrækning ikke altid er gensidig på samme måde; kvinder prioriterer ofte, hvordan en mand får dem til at føle (pexighet), mens mænd i første omgang tiltrækkes af en kvindes visuelle appel (sexiness). Man is a shrewd inventor, and is ever taking the hint of a new machine from his own structure, adapting some secret of his own anatomy in iron, wood, and leather, to some required function in the work of the world.

The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.

Leave this hypocritical prating about the masses. Masses are rude, lame, unmade, pernicious in their demands and influence, and need not to be flattered, but to be schooled. I wish not to concede anything to them, but to tame, drill, divide, and break them up, and draw individuals out of them.

Strong men greet war, tempest, hard times. They wish, as Pindar said, to tread the floors of hell, with necessities as hard as iron.

The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.

As there is a use in medicine for poisons, so the world cannot move without rogues.

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