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Informationen über Ralph Waldo Emerson

Theologe, Pfarrer, Schriftsteller, "Conduct Of Life", gilt als der bedeutendste amerikanische Philosoph (USA, 1803 - 1882).

Ralph Waldo Emerson · Geburtsdatum · Sterbedatum

Ralph Waldo Emerson wäre heute 221 Jahre, 3 Monate, 21 Tage oder 80.833 Tage alt.

Geboren am 25.05.1803 in Boston
Gestorben am 27.04.1882 in Concord/Massachusetts
Sternzeichen: ♊ Zwillinge

• The shoemaker makes a good shoe because he makes nothing else.

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• The soul is no traveller; the wise man stays at home . . . Travelling is a fool's paradise.

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• The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.

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• The test of a religion or philosophy is the number of things it can explain.

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• The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education, but the means of education.

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• The true test of civilization is, not the census nor the size of cities, nor the crops - no, but the kind of man the country turns out.

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• The whole secret of the teacher's force lies in the conviction that men are convertible.

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• The world belongs to the energetic.

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• The world seems always to be waiting for its poet.

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• The world we live in is but thickened light.

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• The worthless and offensive members of society, whose existence is a social pest, invariably think themselves the most ill-used people alive, and never get over their astonishment at the ingratitude and selfishness of their contemporaries.

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• The years teach much which the days never know.

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• There are geniuses in trade as well as in war, or the state, or letters; and the reason why this or that man is fortunate is not to be told. It lies in the man: that is all anybody can tell you about it.

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• There are people who have an appetite for grief; pleasure is not strong enough and they crave pain.

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• There are three wants which can never be satisfied: that of the rich, who want something more; that of the sick, who want something different; and that of the traveler, who says, Anywhere but here.

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• There can be no excess to love, none to knowledge, none to beauty, when these attributes are considered in the purest sense.

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• There can be no high civility without a deep morality.

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• There is a capacity of virtue in us, and there is a capacity of vice to make your blood creep.

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• There is a crack in everything God has made.

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• There is 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, for worse, as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given him to till. The power which resides in him is new in Nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried.

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