Stor

Å være stor er å bli misforstått.

Kilde:

Essays: First Series (1841), Self-Reliance.

Engelsk:

To be great is to be misunderstood.

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A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day. — ’Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood.’ — Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nasjonalitet: amerikansk
Tittel: forfatter og filosof
Levde: 1803 - 1882

Emersons forfatterskap kjennetegnes ved hans dype tro på menneskenaturens evne til å utvikle seg til det gode. Byen Emerson i Canada er oppkalt etter ham.

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