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拉尔夫·沃尔多·爱默生:随笔·摘录 34

拉尔夫·沃尔多·爱默生《随笔》· Essays · 健康 · 认知 · 哲学 · 领导

Still more striking is the expression of this fact in the proverbs of all nations, which are always the literature of reason, or the statements of an absolute truth, without qualification. Proverbs, like the sacred books of each nation, are the sanctuary of the intuitions. That which the droning world, chained to appearances, will not allow the realist to say in his own words, it will suffer him to say in proverbs without contradiction. And this law of laws which the pulpit, the senate, and the college deny, is hourly preached in all markets and workshops by flights of proverbs, whose teaching is as true and as omnipresent as that of birds and flies.

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定位:Excerpt 34 · 核对日期:2026-10-19 · 核验:短摘录

白话

谚语是各民族理性的文学,表达的是无条件的绝对真理。它们像圣书一样,是直觉的庇护所。这个世界被表象束缚,喋喋不休,不允许现实主义者用自己的话讲真话,却允许他用谚语说,且不反驳。讲坛、参议院和大学否认的最高法则,却在市场和工作坊里,被成群的谚语时时宣讲,其教导像鸟和苍蝇一样真实而普遍。所以,别小看日常俗语,它们往往藏着最硬的道理。

上下文

爱默生《随笔集》中讨论“补偿”或“直觉”的篇章,19世纪美国超验主义思想。

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今日一问

你最近听到哪句俗语,其实道破了一个你不敢直说的真相?

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