Ральф Уолдо Эмерсон: Цитаты на английском языке

Ральф Уолдо Эмерсон было американский эссеист, поэт, философ, пастор, общественный деятель. Цитаты на английском языке.
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“The eyes indicate the antiquity of the soul.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

25 May 1843
1820s, Journals (1822–1863)
Вариант: The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.

“The student is to read history actively not passively.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Источник: Self-Reliance and Other Essays

“Science does not know its debt to imagination.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Poetry and Imagination <br class="br">1870s, Society and Solitude (1870), Books, Letters and Social Aims http://www.rwe.org/comm/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=category&amp;sectionid=5&amp;id=74&amp;Itemid=149 (1876)

“The progress of the intellect is to the clearer vision of causes, which neglects surface differences. To the poet, to the philosopher, to the saint, all things are friendly and sacred, all events profitable, all days holy, all men divine.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

1840s, Essays: First Series (1841), History
Контексте: The difference between men is in their principle of association. Some men classify objects by color and size and other accidents of appearance; others by intrinsic likeness, or by the relation of cause and effect. The progress of the intellect is to the clearer vision of causes, which neglects surface differences. To the poet, to the philosopher, to the saint, all things are friendly and sacred, all events profitable, all days holy, all men divine. For the eye is fastened on the life, and slights the circumstance. Every chemical substance, every plant, every animal in its growth, teaches the unity of cause, the variety of appearance.

“Let us advance on Chaos and the Dark”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Источник: Self-Reliance

“Build therefore your own world.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson книга Nature

Источник: Nature