Sublime

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

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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practise resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I

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