“Le symptôme invariable de la science humaine est de voir du miraculeux dans les choses vulgaires.”
Essai sur la nature ('), 1836
Ralph Waldo Emerson, né le 25 mai 1803 à Boston et mort le 27 avril 1882 à Concord , est un essayiste, philosophe et poète américain, chef de file du mouvement transcendantaliste américain du début du XIXe siècle. Wikipedia
“Le symptôme invariable de la science humaine est de voir du miraculeux dans les choses vulgaires.”
Essai sur la nature ('), 1836
“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
“Never read any book that is not a year old.”
In Praise of Books
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose.”
Intellect
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Wherever Macdonald sits, there is the head of the table.”
1830s, The American Scholar http://www.emersoncentral.com/amscholar.htm (1837)
Uses of Great Men
1850s, Representative Men (1850)
Boston Hymn http://www.readbookonline.net/readOnLine/1177/, st. 2
1860s, May-Day and Other Pieces (1867)
1860s, The Conduct of Life (1860), Behavior
“We do what we must, and call it by the best names we can.”
1840s, Essays: Second Series (1844), Experience
“Man exists for his own sake and not to add a laborer to the state.”
Journal, 328, Nov. 15, 1839, http://www.perfectidius.com/Volume_5_1838-1841.pdf
1820s, Journals (1822–1863)
“Earth proudly wears the Parthenon
As the best gem upon her zone.”
St. 3
1840s, Poems (1847), The Problem http://www.emersoncentral.com/poems/problem.htm
“Time dissipates to shining ether the solid angularity of facts.”
History
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Essays, First Series
1830s, The American Scholar http://www.emersoncentral.com/amscholar.htm (1837)
“A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud.”
1840s, Essays: First Series (1841), Friendship
Variante: A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud…
1840s, Essays: Second Series (1844), Politics
1840s, Essays: First Series (1841), History
“Fear not, then, thou child infirm;
There's no god dare wrong a worm.”
Compensation
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Variante: Fear not, then, thou child infirm;
There's no god dare wrong a worm.
“Olympian bards who sung
Divine ideas below,
Which always find us young
And always keep us so.”
Ode to Beauty
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Variante: Olympian bards who sung
Divine ideas below,
Which always find us young
And always keep us so.
1830s, The American Scholar http://www.emersoncentral.com/amscholar.htm (1837)
“For what are they all in their high conceit,
When man in the bush with God may meet?”
Good Bye
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Variante: For what are they all in their high conceit,
When man in the bush with God may meet?
“Man Thinking must not be subdued by his instruments.”
1830s, The American Scholar http://www.emersoncentral.com/amscholar.htm (1837)
1830s, The American Scholar http://www.emersoncentral.com/amscholar.htm (1837)
Introduction
1830s, Nature http://www.emersoncentral.com/nature.htm (1836)
“Love not the flower they pluck and know it not,
And all their botany is Latin names.”
Blight
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“The sublime is excited in me by the great stoical doctrine, Obey thyself.”
The Divinity College Address (1838)
The Natural History of Intellect (1893)
“The heroic cannot be the common, nor can the common be the heroic.”
1870s, Society and Solitude (1870), Quotation and Originality
Sacrifice
1860s, May-Day and Other Pieces (1867)
Variante: Though love repine, and reason chafe,
There came a voice without reply, —
"'Tis man's perdition to be safe,
When for the truth he ought to die."