“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
“A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking.”
20 June 1831 http://books.google.com/books?id=jJZaAAAAMAAJ&q="A+sect+or+party+is+an+elegant+incognito+devised+to+save+a+man+from+the+vexation+of+thinking"&pg=PA386#v=onepage
1820s, Journals (1822–1863)
Fate
1860s, May-Day and Other Pieces (1867)
Love
1840s, Essays: First Series (1841)
“Good is a good doctor, but Bad is sometimes a better.”
Considerations by the Way
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Variante: Good is a good doctor, but Bad is sometimes a better.
“Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous.”
Source: 1830s, Nature http://www.emersoncentral.com/nature.htm (1836), Ch. 3, Beauty
1830s, The American Scholar http://www.emersoncentral.com/amscholar.htm (1837)
“Ode,” Complete Works (1883), vol. 9, p. 73
“The best university that can be recommended to a man of ideas is the gauntlet of the mobs.”
Eloquence
1870s, Society and Solitude (1870)
“Genius is always sufficiently the enemy of genius by over influence.”
1830s, The American Scholar http://www.emersoncentral.com/amscholar.htm (1837)
“Out from the heart of Nature rolled
The burdens of the Bible old.”
St. 2
1840s, Poems (1847), The Problem http://www.emersoncentral.com/poems/problem.htm
Beauty
1860s, The Conduct of Life (1860)
“The faith that stands on authority is not faith.”
The Over-soul
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“The manly part is to do with might and main what you can do.”
The Conduct of Life, Wealth
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“The next thing to saying a good thing yourself, is to quote one”
This sentence has no known source in Emerson's works, but its general sense does closely match the tenor of Emerson's essay "Quotation and Originality", in particular the sentence "Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it." (listed above).
Gow, Foundations for Human Engineering (1931) contains the following passage: "I have the backing of Emerson, for it was he, I believe, who said that the next thing to saying a good thing yourself, if to quote one". It is not clear whether Gow is purporting to quote Emerson verbatim, or merely to paraphrase his work.
Disputed
Culture http://books.google.com/books?id=uVYRAAAAYAAJ&q="The+measure+of+a+master+is+his+success+in+bringing+all+men+round+to+his+opinion+twenty+years+later"&pg=PA157#v=onepage
1860s, The Conduct of Life (1860)
Immortality
1870s, Society and Solitude (1870), Books, Letters and Social Aims http://www.rwe.org/comm/index.php?option=com_content&task=category§ionid=5&id=74&Itemid=149 (1876)
“None shall rule but the humble,
And none but Toil shall have.”
Boston Hymn. 1863
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
1830s, The American Scholar http://www.emersoncentral.com/amscholar.htm (1837)
Love
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Essays, First Series
Source: 1830s, Nature http://www.emersoncentral.com/nature.htm (1836), Ch. 8, Prospects
1840s, The Young American (1844)
1840s, The Young American (1844)
1840s, The Young American (1844)
1840s, The Young American (1844)
1840s, Essays: Second Series (1844), Nominalist and Realist
1840s, Essays: Second Series (1844), Nominalist and Realist