„There is no virtue which is final; all are initial. The virtues of society are vices of the saint. The terror of reform is the discovery that we must cast away our virtues, or what we have always esteemed such, into the same pit that has consumed our grosser vices.“ (p. 314) #Emerson #virtue
Schlagwort-Archive: Emerson
Emerson: Nature
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„There are no fixtures in nature. The universe is fluid and volatile. Permanence is but a word of degrees. Our globe seen by God is a transparent law, not a mass of facts.“ (p. 300) #Emerson #nature
Emerson: The Key to Every Man
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„The key to every man is his thought.“ (p. 301) #Emerson #KeyToEveryMan
Emerson: The Natural World
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„The natural world may be conceived of as a system of concentric circles, and we now and then detect in nature slight dislocations which apprize us that this surface on which we now stand is not fixed, but sliding.“ (p. 311) #Emerson #NaturalWorld
Emerson: Nature
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„Nature looks provokingly stable and secular, but it has a cause like all the rest“. (p. 301) #Emerson #nature