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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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„It costs a beautiful person no exertion to paint her image on our eyes; yet how splendid is that benefit! It costs no more for a wise soul to convey his quality to other men.“
„Though thou loved her as thyself,As a self of purer clay,Tho’ her parting dims the day,Stealing grace from all alive,Heartily know,When half-gods go,The gods arrive.“
„But all sorts of things and weatherMust be taken in togetherTo make up a year,And a sphere.“
„Do not yet see, that, if the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him.“
„Every revolution was first a thought in one man’s mind and when the same thought occurs in another man, it is the key to that era.“
„Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society.“
„Language is the archives of history … Language is fossil poetry.“
„Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey the laws too well. What satire on government can equal the severity of censure conveyed in the word Politic, which now for ages has signified cunning, intimating that the State is a trick?“
„Announced by all the trumpets of the skyArrives the snow, and, driving o’er the fields,Seems nowhere to alight: the whited airHides hills and woods, the river and the heaven,And veils the farm-house at the garden’s end.“
„Henceforward I am the truth’s. Be it known unto you that henceforward I obey no law less than the eternal law. I will have no covenants but proximities.“
„We but half express ourselves, and are ashamed of that divine idea which each of us represents.“
„Two may talk and one may hear, but three cannot take part in a conversation of the most sincere and searching sort.“
„Discontent is the want of self-reliance: it is infirmity of will.“
„The measure of action is the sentiment from which it proceeds. The greatest action may easily be one of the most private circumstance.“
„I owed a magnificent day to the Bhagavad Gita. It was the first of books; it was as if an empire spoke to us, nothing small or unworthy, but large, serene, consistent, the voice of an old intelligence which in another age and climate had pondered and thus disposed of the same questions which exercise us.“
„History must be this or it is nothing. Every law which the state enacts indicates a fact in human nature; that is all. We must in ourselves see the necessary reason of every fact, — see how it could and must be.“
„Of course, he who has put forth his total strength in fit actions, has the richest return of wisdom.“
„The soul is subject to dollars.“
„I had better never see a book than to be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit, and made a satellite instead of a system. The one thing in the world, of value, is the active soul.“
„Our age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories, and criticism. The foregoing generation beheld God and nature face to face; we, through their eyes. Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe. Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition, and a religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs?“
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