…ist mir neulich per e-mail ins Haus geflattert.
Scheinbar eine Webemail, doch bei näherem Hinsehen, enthielt sie einen Text, der micht nachdenklich machte. Enthielt er doch Gedanken, die für einen Werbespruch zu tief waren.
Ich vermute eher einen amerikanischen Philosophen dahinter. Könnte es Emmerson sein?
Danke
„Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.
It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.
Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity and truth accomplishes no victories without it.
The fellow who does things that count, doesn’t usually stop to count them.
When death overtakes us all that we have is left to others all that we are we take with us.
The formation of one’s character ought to be everyone’s chief aim.
The universe seems bankrupt as soon as we begin to discuss the characters of individuals.
What is conservatism? It is not adherence to the old and tried, but against the new and untried?
Absurdity. A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one’s own opinion.
There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it.
The average estimate themselves by what they do, the above average by what they are.
No sooner said than done – so acts your man of worth.
Abstainer. A weak man who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.
We often do good in order that we may do evil with impunity.
An atheist is a man who believes himself an accident.
You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. Don’t let yourself indulge in vain wishes.
I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man’s being unable to sit still and quiet in a room alone.
Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.
Who dares nothing, need hope for nothing.“
gru0
thorshammer
