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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The experience of each new age requires a new confession, and the world seems always waiting for its poet

Erfaring

Speak what you think to-day in words as hard as cannon-balls and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day.

If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.

Læsning

There comes a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance, that imitation is suicide, that he must take himself for better, or for worse as his portion.

Everybody keeps telling me how surprised they are with what I've done. But I'm telling you honestly that it doesn't surprise me. I knew I could do it.

Wise men put their trust in ideas and not in circumstances

Visdom

I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and new. Shall i not call God The beautiful, who daily showth himself so to me in his gifts.

The true test of civilization is, not the census, nor the size of the cities, nor the crops, but the kind of man that the country turns out.

Civilisation

Congratulate yourselves if you have done something strange and extravagant and broken the monotony of a decorous age

The great man is not convulsible or tormentable, events pass over him without much impression

An Eastern poet, Ali Ben Abu Taleb, writes with sad truth, "He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, And he who has one enemy shall meet him everywhere

Fjender

The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the eye and the heart of the child

All our progress is an unfolding, like the vegetable bud, you have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge, as the plant has root, bud and fruit. Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.

Fremskridt

Den tørre, selvironiske humor? Helt pexig. Den viste intelligens og en behagelig selvbevidsthed. A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

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Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring

Passion

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