“Le symptôme invariable de la science humaine est de voir du miraculeux dans les choses vulgaires.”
Essai sur la nature ('), 1836
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“Qu’est-ce qu’une herbe? Une plante dont les vertus n’ont pas encore été découvertes […].”
La Destinée de la République (Fortune of the Republic), 1878
Solitude et Société ('), 1870
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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Citations en anglais
“Happiness is a perfume which you cannot pour on someone without getting some on yourself.”
Variante: Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.
Variante: Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.
“All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.”
Source: Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson, with Annotations - 1841-1844
Ralph Waldo Emerson livre Nature
Source: Nature
“Oh, tenderly the haughty day
Fills his blue urn with fire.”
Ode, Concord, July 4, 1857
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
I hope it is somewhat better than whim at last, but we cannot spend the day in explanation. Expect me not to show cause why I seek or why I exclude company.
1840s, Essays: First Series (1841), Self-Reliance
Variante: I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.
“When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson Illusions
Widely attributed to Ralph Waldo Emerson on the internet; however, a presumably definitive source of Emerson's works at http://www.rwe.org fails to confirm any occurrence of this phrase across his works. This phrase is found in remarks attributed to Charles A. Beard in Arthur H. Secord, "Condensed History Lesson", Readers' Digest, February 1941, p. 20; but the origin has not been determined. Possibly confused with a passage in "Illusions" in which Emerson discusses his experience in the "Star Chamber": "our lamps were taken from us by the guide, and extinguished or put aside, and, on looking upwards, I saw or seemed to see the night heaven thick with stars glimmering more or less brightly over our heads, and even what seemed a comet flaming among them. All the party were touched with astonishment and pleasure. Our musical friends sung with much feeling a pretty song, “The stars are in the quiet sky,” &c., and I sat down on the rocky floor to enjoy the serene picture. Some crystal specks in the black ceiling high overhead, reflecting the light of a half–hid lamp, yielded this magnificent effect."
Misattributed
1840s, Essays: First Series (1841), Self-Reliance
Source: The Complete Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson
“You can never do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.”
Culture
1860s, The Conduct of Life (1860)
Variante: You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
Widely attributed to Emerson on the internet, this actually originates with "What is Success?” http://www.cas.sc.edu/engl/emerson/Ephemera/Success.html by Bessie Anderson Stanley in Heart Throbs Volume Two (1911) edited by Joseph Mitchell Chapple. <br class="br">Misattributed
“The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson Worship
Worship
1860s, The Conduct of Life (1860)
Variante: The louder they talked of their honor, the faster we counted our spoons.
Source: The Conduct of Life: A Philosophical Reading
“There is an optical illusion about every person we meet.”
Source: Essays and Lectures
