Things are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but until they speak to the imagination, not yet beautiful. This is the reason why beauty is still escaping out of all analysis. It is not yet possessed, it cannot be handled. …It instantly deserts possession, and flies to an object in the horizon. If I could put my hand on the north star, would it be as beautiful? The sea is lovely, but when we bathe in it, the beauty forsakes all the near water. For the imagination and senses cannot be gratified at the same time.
Ralph Waldo EmersonStichwörter: beauty
Great men, great nations, have not been boasters and buffoons, but perceivers of the terror of life, and have manned themselves to face it.
Ralph Waldo EmersonMen succeed when they realize that their failures are the preparation for their victories.
Ralph Waldo EmersonIf we will not be mar-plots with our miserable interferences, the work, the society, letters, arts, science, religion of men would go on far better than now, and the heaven predicted from the beginning of the world, and still predicted from the bottom of the heart, would organize itself, as do now the rose, and the air, and the sun.
Ralph Waldo EmersonOutside, among your fellows, among strangers, you must perceive appearances, a hundred things you cannot do; but inside, the terrible freedom!
Ralph Waldo EmersonStichwörter: freedom
The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so; but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people.
Ralph Waldo EmersonImitation is suicide.
Ralph Waldo EmersonStichwörter: life be-yourself creativity
Evermore in the world is this marvelous balance of beauty and disgust, magnificence and rats.
Ralph Waldo EmersonStichwörter: balance
Heaven walks among us ordinarily muffled in such triple or tenfold disguises that the wisest are deceived and no one suspects the days to be gods.
Ralph Waldo EmersonStichwörter: inspirational emerson
There is an optical illusion about every person we meet.
Ralph Waldo EmersonStichwörter: perception illusion
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