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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

• To fill the hour-that is happiness.

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• To help the young soul, to add energy, inspire hope, and blow the coals into a useful flame; to redeem defeat by new thought and firm action, this, thought not easy, is the work of divine men.

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• To laugh often and much: To win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children, to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to leave the world a bit better whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you lived. This is to have succeeded.

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• Tobacco, coffee, alcohol, hashish, prusic acid, strychnine, are weak dilutions: the surest poison is time.

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• Trust men and they will be true to you.

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• Truth is too simple for us; we do not like those who unmask our illusions.

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• War educates the senses, calls into action the will, perfects the physical constitution, brings men into such swift and close collision in critical moments that man measures man.

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• We are always getting ready to live but never living.

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• We are born believing. A man bears beliefs, as a tree bears apples.

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• We are much better believers in immortality than we can give grounds for. The real evidence is too subtle, or is higher than we can write down in propositions.

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• We are not free to use today, or to promise tomorrow, because we are already mortgaged to yesterday.

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• We are of different opinions at different hours but we always may be said to be at heart on the side of truth.

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• We are reformers in spring and summer. In autumn and winter we stand by the old. Reformers in the morning, conservatives at night. Reform is affirmative; conservatism, negative. Conservatism goes for comfort; reform for truth.

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• We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyful of words.

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• We ascribe beauty to that which is simple; which has not superfluous parts; which exactly answers its ends.

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• We boil at different degrees.

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• We cannot overstate our debt to the past, but the moment has the supreme claim.

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• We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten.

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• We do not yet trust the unknown powers of thought. Whence came all these tools, inventions, books laws, parties, kingdoms? Out of the invisible world, through a few brains. The arts and institutions of men are created out of thought. The powers that make the capitalist are metaphysical, the force of method and force of will makes trade, and builds towns.

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• We do what we must, and call it by the best names.

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