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. . . . Familiar as the voice of the mind is to each, the highest merit we ascribe to Moses, Plato, and Milton is, that they set at naught books and traditions, and spoke not what men but what they thought. . . .The eye was placed where one ray should fall, that it might testify of that particular ray. . . Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place the divine providence has found for you . . .Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members. Society is a joint-stock company, in which the members agree, for the better securing of his bread to each shareholder, to surrender the liberty and culture of the eater. The virtue in most request is conformity. Self-reliance is its aversion. it loves not realities and creators, but names and customs. Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist. Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance
Posted on: Wed, 07 Jan 2015 04:38:14 +0000
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