Ralph Waldo Emerson: Zitate auf Englisch

Ralph Waldo Emerson war US-amerikanischer Philosoph und Schriftsteller. Zitate auf Englisch.
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“You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity.”

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Fate
1860s, The Conduct of Life (1860)

“He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.”

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Address on The Method of Nature http://www.infomotions.com/alex2/authors/emerson-ralph/emerson-method-734/ (1841)

“Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can offer with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation, but of the adopted talent of another, you have only an extemporaneous, half possession.”

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

“None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.”

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Variante: To accomplish excellence or anything outstanding, you must listen to that whisper which is heard by you alone.

“We are always getting ready to live, but never living.”

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12 April 1834 http://books.google.com/books?id=MpNaAAAAMAAJ&amp;q=&amp;quot;We+are+always+getting+ready+to+live+but+never+living&amp;quot;&amp;pg=PA276#v=onepage <br class="br">1820s, Journals (1822–1863)

“Fear always springs
from ignorance.”

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Variante: Fear always springs from ignorance.

“Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed. When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost work but the solidest things we know.”

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“The years teach much which the days never know.”

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Ralph Waldo Emerson buch Experience

1840s, Essays: Second Series (1844), Experience

“The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil. It is not for you to choose what he shall know, what he shall do. It is chosen and foreordained and he only holds the key to his own secret.”

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“Riding a horse is not a gentle hobby, to be picked up and laid down like a game of solitaire. It is a grand passion. It seizes a person whole and once it has done so, he/she will have to accept that his life will be radically changed.”

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Ralph Waldo Emerson