“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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“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
1830s, The American Scholar http://www.emersoncentral.com/amscholar.htm (1837)
“Keep cool: it will be all one a hundred years hence.”
Montaigne; or, The Skeptic
1850s, Representative Men (1850)
“That what we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us.”
Fate
1860s, The Conduct of Life (1860)
“Nature abhors the old, and old age seems the only disease; all others run into this one.”
1840s, Essays: First Series (1841), Circles
Woodnotes II http://www.emersoncentral.com/poems/wood_notes_ii.htm, st. 4
1840s, Poems (1847)
“Not from a vain or shallow thought
His awful Jove young Phidias brought.”
St. 2
1840s, Poems (1847), The Problem http://www.emersoncentral.com/poems/problem.htm
“Nor sequent centuries could hit
Orbit and sum of Shakespeare's wit.”
Solution
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
The Rhodora http://www.emersoncentral.com/poems/rhodora.htm
1840s, Poems (1847)
The Celebration of Intellect (1861)
Fate
1860s, The Conduct of Life (1860)
1860s, The Conduct of Life (1860), Behavior
“The virtues of society are the vices of the saints.”
Circles
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
1870s, Society and Solitude (1870), Quotation and Originality
1840s, Essays: First Series (1841), Self-Reliance
“The soul is subject to dollars.”
1830s, The American Scholar http://www.emersoncentral.com/amscholar.htm (1837)
“Deep in the man sits fast his fate
To mould his fortunes, mean or great.”
Fate http://www.humanitiesweb.org/human.php?s=l&p=c&a=p&ID=20569&c=323
1860s, May-Day and Other Pieces (1867)
Musketaquid http://www.emersoncentral.com/poems/musketaquid.htm, st. 5
1840s, Poems (1847)
St. 1
1840s, Poems (1847), The Problem http://www.emersoncentral.com/poems/problem.htm
“We are symbols, and inhabit symbols.”
1840s, Essays: Second Series (1844), The Poet
11 April 1834
1820s, Journals (1822–1863)
“Solitude, the safeguard of mediocrity, is to genius the stern friend.”
Culture
1860s, The Conduct of Life (1860)
1830s, The American Scholar http://www.emersoncentral.com/amscholar.htm (1837)
1827 journal entry reproduced in Emerson: The Mind on Fire (1995), p. 82
1840s, Essays: Second Series (1844), New England Reformers
Intellect
1840s, Essays: First Series (1841)
Each and All
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Variante: Nor knowest thou what argument
Thy life to thy neighbor's creed has lent.
All are needed by each one;
Nothing is fair or good alone.
Works and Days http://www.rwe.org/comm/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=37&Itemid=148
1870s, Society and Solitude (1870)
1830s, The American Scholar http://www.emersoncentral.com/amscholar.htm (1837)