“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
Ralph Waldo Emerson livre Experience
1840s, Essays: Second Series (1844), Experience
Greatness <br class="br">1870s, Society and Solitude (1870), Books, Letters and Social Aims http://www.rwe.org/comm/index.php?option=com_content&task=category&sectionid=5&id=74&Itemid=149 (1876)
“Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of our science.”
Works and Days - generally misquoted as "Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science."
1870s, Society and Solitude (1870)
“People wish to be settled; only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them.”
1840s, Essays: First Series (1841), Circles
Source: The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one.”
1840s, Essays: First Series (1841), Friendship
Variante: The only way to have a friend is to be one.
“Self trust is the essence of heroism.”
Success
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Variante: Self-trust is the first secret of success.
“Your goodness must have some edge to it -- else it is none.”
1840s, Essays: First Series (1841), Self-Reliance
Variante: Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, — else it is none.
Source: Culture, Behavior, Beauty, Books, Art, Eloquence, Power, Wealth, Illusions
Contexte: Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, — else it is none. The doctrine of hatred must be preached as the counteraction of the doctrine of love when that pules and whines. I shun father and mother and wife and brother, when my genius calls me. I would write on the lintels of the door-post, Whim. 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.
Source: Nature and Selected Essays
