Sublime

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters, compared to what lies within us. RALPH WALDO EMERSON

of the universe, you carrying on the work. Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth. I sat at a table where were rich food and wine in abundance, and obsequious attendance, but sincerity and truth were not; and I went away hungry from the inhospitable board. The hospitality was as cold as the ices. I thought that there was no need of

To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men, — that is genius.

Emerson was now feverishly active. He spent the end of his junior year “reading and writing and talking and walking.”

Henry David Thoreau déclare son indépendance par rapport à la société américaine et va vivre à Walden Pond, dans le Massachussetts. Il imite consciemment les philosophes antiques et exprime le plus grand mépris pour la philosophie universitaire moderne. « De nos jours, il existe des professeurs de philosophie, mais pas de philosophes. […] Pour être

“The wise man shows his wisdom in separation, in gradation, and his scale of creatures and of merits is as wide as nature,” writes Emerson. “The foolish have no range in their scale, but suppose every man is as every other man.” Ultimately to say that people all share the same hopes and fears, are all born and love and suffer and die alike, is to s

I did not at that time know Emily Dickinson’s great definition, her ‘Publication is not the business of poets’; being a poet is all, being known as a poet is nothing. The onanistic literary picture of myself

Le mouvement transcendantal de la Nouvelle Angleterre se basait sur l’idée que Dieu doit se trouver en chaque personne ainsi que dans la nature. Pour les membres de ce mouvement, passer du temps seul dans les bois était une manière de connaître et vénérer Dieu. Ralph Waldo Emerson,

"Man is all symmetry, Full of proportions, one limb to another, And to all the world besides. Each part may call the farthest, brother; For head with foot hath private amity, And both with moons and tides. "Nothing hath got so far But man hath caught and kept it as his prey; His eyes dismount the highest star; He is in little all the sphe