Frasi di Elbert Hubbard

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Elbert Hubbard

Data di nascita: 19. Giugno 1856
Data di morte: 7. Maggio 1915
Altri nomi:Elbert Green Hubbard

Elbert Green Hubbard è stato uno scrittore, filosofo e artista statunitense.

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Frasi Elbert Hubbard

„Non prendere la vita troppo sul serio, tanto non ne uscirai vivo.“

— Elbert Hubbard
A Thousand and One Epigrams, 1911

Sulla vita

„Il Soprannaturale è il naturale non ancora compreso.“

— Elbert Hubbard

„A ripensarci bene, anch'io non sono completamente d'accordo con me stesso. Non tutto quello che ho scritto ieri mi trova d'accordo oggi. Sono felice di sapere qual è il suo punto di vista in merito a questa faccenda. trascrizione approssimativa“

— Elbert Hubbard
citato in Dale Carnagie, Come trattare gli altri e farseli amici, traduzione di M. Marazza, Bompiani, 2001

„Un amico è qualcuno che ti conosce completamente e ancora ti piace.“

— Elbert Hubbard
Note Book of Elbert Hubbard‎ - Pagina 112, Elbert Hubbard - Kessinger Publishing, 1998, ISBN 0766104168

„Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.“

— Elbert Hubbard
p. 112.

„God will not look you over for medals, degrees or diplomas but for scars.“

— Elbert Hubbard

„Do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing, and you'll never be criticized.“

— Elbert Hubbard, Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Vol. 3: American Statesmen
John North Willys (as reprinted in Elbert Hubbard's Selected Writings, Part 2 (1998), pp. 331–337, Roycrofters, 1922).

„Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes a day. Wisdom consists of not exceeding the limit.“

— Elbert Hubbard, The Roycroft Dictionary Concocted by Ali Baba and the Bunch on Rainy Days

„Do not take life too seriously – you will never get out of it alive.“

— Elbert Hubbard
p. 74

„He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.“

— Elbert Hubbard

„Never explain―your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.“

— Elbert Hubbard
The Motto Book (1907).

„The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.“

— Elbert Hubbard

„No man who believes in force and violence is an Anarchist. The true Anarchist decries all influences save those of love and reason. Ideas are his only arms.
Being an Anarchist I am also a Socialist.“

— Elbert Hubbard
Context: No man who believes in force and violence is an Anarchist. The true Anarchist decries all influences save those of love and reason. Ideas are his only arms. Being an Anarchist I am also a Socialist. Socialism is the antithesis of Anarchy. One is the North Pole of Truth, the other the South. The Socialist believes in working for the good of all, while Anarchy is pure Individualism. I believe in every man working for the good of self; and in working for the good of self, he works for the good of all. To think, to see, to feel, to know; to deal justly; to bear all patiently; to act quietly; to speak cheerfully; to moderate one's voice — these things will bring you the highest good. They will bring you the love of the best, and the esteem of that Sacred Few, whose good opinion alone is worth cultivating. And further than this, it is the best way you can serve Society — live your life. The wise way to benefit humanity is to attend to your own affairs, and thus give other people an opportunity to look after theirs. If there is any better way to teach virtue than by practicing it, I do not know it. Would you make men better — set them an example. The millenium will never come until governments cease from governing, and the meddler is at rest. Politicians are men who volunteer the task of governing us, for a consideration. The political boss is intent on living off your labor. A man may seek an office in order to do away with the rascal who now occupies it, but for the most part office-seekers are rank rogues. Shakespeare used the word politician five times, and each time it is synonymous with knave. That is to say, a politician is one who sacrifices truth and honor for policy. The highest motive of his life is expediency — policy. In King Lear it is the "scurvy politician," who through tattered clothes beholds small vices, while robes and furred gowns, for him, covers all.

„I believe that brutality tends to defeat itself.“

— Elbert Hubbard
Context: I believe that brutality tends to defeat itself. Prizefighters die young, gourmands get the gout, hate hurts worse the man who nurses it, and all selfishness robs the mind of its divine insight, and cheats the soul that would know. Mind alone is eternal. He, watching over Israel, slumbers not nor sleeps. My faith is great: out of the transient darkness of the present the shadows will flee away, and Day will yet dawn. I am an Anarchist.

„Every man should have a college education in order to show him how little the thing is really worth.“

— Elbert Hubbard
Context: Every man should have a college education in order to show him how little the thing is really worth. The intellectual kings of the earth have seldom been college-bred. Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Painters‎ (1899), p. 186.

„I believe in the Motherhood of God.
I believe in the Blessed Trinity of Father, Mother and Child.“

— Elbert Hubbard
Context: I believe in the Motherhood of God. I believe in the Blessed Trinity of Father, Mother and Child. I believe that God is here, and that we are as near Him now as ever we shall be. I do not believe He started this world a-going and went away and left it to run by itself. I believe in the sacredness of the human body, this transient dwelling place of a living soul, And so I deem it the duty of every man and every woman to keep his or her body beautiful through right thinking and right living. I believe that the love of man for woman, and the love of woman for man is holy; And that this love in all its promptings is as much an emanation of the Divine Spirit as man's love for God, or the most daring hazards of the human mind. I believe in salvation through economic, social, and spiritual freedom. I believe John Ruskin, William Morris, Henry Thoreau, Walt Whitman, and Leo Tolstoy to be Prophets of God, who should rank in mental reach and spiritual insight with Elijah, Hosea, Ezekiel, and Isaiah. I believe that men are inspired to-day as much as ever men were. I believe we are now living in Eternity as much as ever we shall. I believe that the best way to prepare for a Future Life is to be kind, live one day at a time, and do the work you can do best, doing it as well as you can. I believe we should remember the Week-day, to keep it holy. I believe there is no devil but fear. I believe that no one can harm you but yourself. I believe in my own divinity — and yours. I believe that we are all sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be. I believe the only way we can reach the Kingdom of Heaven is to have the Kingdom of Heaven in our hearts. I believe in every man minding his own business. I believe in sunshine, fresh air, friendship, calm sleep, beautiful thoughts. I believe in the paradox of success through failure. I believe in the purifying process of sorrow, and I believe that death is a manifestation of life. I believe the Universe is planned for good. I believe it is possible that I shall make other creeds, and change this one, or add to it, from time to time, as new light may come to me.