“Le symptôme invariable de la science humaine est de voir du miraculeux dans les choses vulgaires.”
Essai sur la nature ('), 1836
Ralph Waldo Emerson: 733 citations0 J'aime
Ralph Waldo Emerson citations célèbres
“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
“Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.”
1840s, Essays: First Series (1841), Art
Ralph Waldo Emerson livre Essays: First Series
Source: Essays: First Series
Variante: To the illuminated mind the whole world burns and sparkles with light.
“If eyes were made for seeing,
Then Beauty is its own excuse for being.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson The Rhodora
The Rhodora
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great.”
1840s, Essays: First Series (1841), Prudence
“Love what is simple and beautiful.
These are the essentials.”
Source: The Tao of Emerson the Tao of Emerson
Variante: That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed but that our power to do has increased.
“Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.”
Beauty
1860s, The Conduct of Life (1860)
“God will not have his work made manifest by cowards”
Source: 1840s, Essays: First Series (1841), Self-Reliance
“The only gift is a portion of thyself.”
1840s, Essays: Second Series (1844), Gifts
