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21 best ideas in Ralph Waldo Emerson’s essay on Self Reliance (via justin murphy)
Most people do not trust their own beliefs. The essence of genius is simply to trust yourself—to infer that whatever seems most true in your heart is most true in reality—and for everybody else, too, despite whatever they may claim.
There is hardly anything more painful
Every great man is a unique. The Scipionism of Scipio is precisely that part he could not borrow. Shakspeare will never be made by the study of Shakspeare.
Ralph Waldo Emerson • Self Reliance (Illustrated)
Thy love afar is spite at home.’
Ralph Waldo Emerson • Self-Reliance & Other Essays
Finally, religion and ethics, which may be fitly called,—the practice of ideas, or the introduction of ideas into life,—have an analogous effect with all lower culture, in degrading nature and suggesting its dependence on spirit.
Ralph Waldo Emerson • Nature
One: we are all self-contained geniuses. Every one of us innately has greatness inside of us, or, as Emerson puts it, “Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.”
Al Pittampalli • Persuadable: How Great Leaders Change Their Minds to Change the World
No one is free who is not master of himself. Pythagoras
Ralph Waldo Emerson • Self-Reliance
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradi
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Though I should front an object for a lifetime I should only see what it concerned me to see.
Henry David Thoreau, Damion Searls, • The Journal of Henry David Thoreau, 1837-1861
The orator yields to the inspiration of a transient occasion, and speaks to the mob before him, to those who can hear him; but the writer, whose more equable life is his occasion, and who would be distracted by the event and the crowd which inspire the orator, speaks to the intellect and health of mankind, to all in any age who can understand him.