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crivelli ([personal profile] crivelli) wrote2007-12-28 04:29 pm
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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Запостила как-то под глазком некоторые высказывания Эмерсона, на память.
А теперь думаю, чего нам скрывать, читайте на здоровье:

There is a crack in everything God has made.

Here is the world, sound as a nut, perfect, not the smallest piece of chaos left, never a stitch nor an end, not a mark of haste, or botching, or second thought; but the theory of the world is a thing of shreds and patches.

People wish to be settled: only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them.

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

Let us treat men and women well; treat them as if they were real. Perhaps they are.

Reality, however has a sliding floor.

Deal so plainly with man and woman, as to constrain the utmost sincerity, and destroy all hope of trifling with you. It is the highest compliment you can pay.

Sydney Smith found, as he grew older, that the people are better and foolisher than he had believed.

The only way to have a friend is to be one.

Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.

Make yourself necessary to someone.

Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.

There is then creative reading as well as creative writing.

We read often with as much talent as we write.

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly, until he knows that every day is Doomsday.

The worst day is good for something. All that is not love, is knowledge, and all that is not good today, is a store laid up for the wants of distant days.

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.

[identity profile] sutasu.livejournal.com 2007-12-28 02:31 pm (UTC)(link)
Let us treat men and women well; treat them as if they were real. Perhaps they are.

вот это здорово)

[identity profile] crivelli.livejournal.com 2007-12-28 02:32 pm (UTC)(link)
Reality, however has a sliding floor:-)
Это он, правда, совсем в другой раз сказал.

[identity profile] dorinem.livejournal.com 2007-12-28 02:44 pm (UTC)(link)
Хотела указать на особо понравивишиеся, но поняла, что не стоит - слишком много. Спасибо, отличные цитаты.

[identity profile] crivelli.livejournal.com 2007-12-28 04:03 pm (UTC)(link)
:-)

[identity profile] lunaire.livejournal.com 2007-12-28 03:26 pm (UTC)(link)
ясно на что делает аллюзию Коэн в there is a crack - a crack in everything - thats how the light gets in

[identity profile] crivelli.livejournal.com 2007-12-28 03:32 pm (UTC)(link)
Вполне мог знать Эмерсона. Интересно.

[identity profile] lemuel55.livejournal.com 2007-12-28 03:33 pm (UTC)(link)
Мудрые мысли - и остроумные!
Но не могу не поспорить с одной - насчёт экспериментов.

[identity profile] lemuel55.livejournal.com 2007-12-28 04:31 pm (UTC)(link)
Могу и не спорить - если мы ограничим это утверждение сферой творчества. Здесь я полностью за!
А жизнь - несколько другое дело. В жизни обитают живые существа, и в любые жизненные эксперименты вовлечено как минимум 1 живое существо. :)

[identity profile] crivelli.livejournal.com 2007-12-29 12:39 am (UTC)(link)
Эксперименты вовсе не обязательно должны быть связаны с кем-то ещё. Он могут быть направлены исключительно на самого экспериментатора.

[identity profile] mbla.livejournal.com 2007-12-28 11:27 pm (UTC)(link)
Let us treat men and women well; treat them as if they were real. Perhaps they are.

It is truly impossible to live in the world where everyone is real.

[identity profile] crivelli.livejournal.com 2007-12-29 12:37 am (UTC)(link)
Может, и невозможно, но тех, с кем сталкиваешься нос к носу, всё-таки можно постараться:-)

[identity profile] mbla.livejournal.com 2007-12-29 01:18 am (UTC)(link)
Если нос к носу, то да. :-)))

[identity profile] crivelli.livejournal.com 2007-12-30 02:05 pm (UTC)(link)
:-)))

[identity profile] salixcaprea.livejournal.com 2007-12-29 12:04 am (UTC)(link)
very appropriately ... only if in this... - :"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."

-... is so much truth, I am probably going to be the next Pythagoras! ;-)

[identity profile] crivelli.livejournal.com 2007-12-29 12:36 am (UTC)(link)
That's better than to be Luther, no to mention Jesus:-)

(Anonymous) 2007-12-29 07:36 pm (UTC)(link)
:-) right! maybe I better choose Socrates! :-)

[identity profile] crivelli.livejournal.com 2007-12-30 11:18 am (UTC)(link)
Do you fancy a Water Hemlock drink?:-)

[identity profile] tuta-tis.livejournal.com 2007-12-29 09:20 am (UTC)(link)
Спасибо :)
Вот эта очень актуальна: Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.

[identity profile] crivelli.livejournal.com 2007-12-30 02:05 pm (UTC)(link)
:-)

оригинал?

[identity profile] missalienation.livejournal.com 2010-04-10 10:24 pm (UTC)(link)
подскажите пожалуйста, может кто-нибудь знает, как в аглицком оригинале выглядит этот его афоризм: в сумасбродстве есть надежда, в заурядности - никакой?

Re: оригинал?

[identity profile] crivelli.livejournal.com 2010-04-11 06:16 pm (UTC)(link)
К сожалению, я не припомню, чтоб мне именно эта фраза попадалась.

Re: оригинал?

[identity profile] missalienation.livejournal.com 2010-04-11 06:23 pm (UTC)(link)
удивительно, в рунете только набираешь - сразу вылазит, а на англоязычных сайтах ничего похожего