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. Essays. 1901 - Página 47por Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1901Visualização integral - Acerca deste livro
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...present in lives whose range is very small." Phillips Brooks "Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus,...ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood." Ralph Waldo Emerson "To be great is to be misunderstood." Ralph Waldo Emerson k> Whenever you see a... | |
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...anticipate our actions to misunderstand us should not impede us: Is it so bad then to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus,...Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and w1se spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood. (W 2:57-8) "Self-Reliance" is... | |
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...wall...Ah, so (without consistency) you shall be misunderstood? Is it so bad then to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus,...ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood. What an extraordinary definition of greatness—to be misunderstood. In the same essay, Emerson wrote:... | |
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...said today, - 'Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood.' - Is it so bad then to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus,...ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood. This journal entry in the summer of 1838 may well be the root of one of Emerson 's most famous aphorisms,... | |
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