“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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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
“An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.”
This expression is widely misattributed to Emerson in journalism, tweets, and memes on the internet. This quotation in an earlier phrasing of Jared Eliot's statement “It used to be the Saying of an old Man, That an Ounce of Experience is better than a Pound of Science.” (Essays upon Field Husbandry, 1748; quotation reprinted in "Jared Eliot, Minister, Physician, Farmer" by Rodney H. True. Agricultural History Vol. 2, No. 4 (Oct., 1928) https://www.jstor.org/stable/3739311, p199). The quote has also been misattributed to Friedrich Engels, a claim possibly originating from the 1975 book The Strange Case of Victor Grayson by Reg Groves ( link http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Udk7LCxtvugJ:socialiststandardmyspace.blogspot.com/2010_05_02_archive.html+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us) <br class="br">Misattributed
“We live amid surfaces, and the true art of life is to skate well on them.”
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1840s, Essays: Second Series (1844), Experience
