„Неужели так плохо быть понятым? Пифагор был неправильно понят, и Сократ, и Иисус, и Лютер, и Коперник, и Галилей, и Ньютон, и каждый чистый и мудрый дух, который когда-либо принимал плоть. Быть великим значит быть неправильно понятым.“
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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.
1840s, Essays: First Series (1841), Self-Reliance
Источник: Self Reliance
Контексте: 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.
Ральф Уолдо Эмерсон 253
американский эссеист, поэт, философ, пастор, общественный д… 1803–1882Похожие цитаты
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