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... individual culture . . . . The idealist takes his departure from his consciousness and reckons the world an appearance . His thought , that is the universe . " His precise attitude as to the conception of the Deity is diffi- cult to ...
... individual culture . . . . The idealist takes his departure from his consciousness and reckons the world an appearance . His thought , that is the universe . " His precise attitude as to the conception of the Deity is diffi- cult to ...
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... individuals each of whom aims to do his stint of the joint work , whilst each other performs his . The fable implies , that the individual , to possess himself , must sometimes return from his own labor to embrace all the other laborers ...
... individuals each of whom aims to do his stint of the joint work , whilst each other performs his . The fable implies , that the individual , to possess himself , must sometimes return from his own labor to embrace all the other laborers ...
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... individual , stands by itself . By and by , it finds how to join two things , and see in 15 them one nature ; then three , then three thousand ; and so , tyran- nized over by its own unifying2 instinct , it goes on tying things together ...
... individual , stands by itself . By and by , it finds how to join two things , and see in 15 them one nature ; then three , then three thousand ; and so , tyran- nized over by its own unifying2 instinct , it goes on tying things together ...
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... individuals , I do not much dwell on these differences . In fact , I believe each individual passes through all three . The boy is a Greek ; the youth , romantic ; the adult , reflective . I deny not , however , that a revolution in the ...
... individuals , I do not much dwell on these differences . In fact , I believe each individual passes through all three . The boy is a Greek ; the youth , romantic ; the adult , reflective . I deny not , however , that a revolution in the ...
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... individual , to surround him with barriers of natural respect , so that each man shall feel the world is his , and man shall treat with man as a sovereign state with a sovereign state ; tends to true union as well as greatness . “ I ...
... individual , to surround him with barriers of natural respect , so that each man shall feel the world is his , and man shall treat with man as a sovereign state with a sovereign state ; tends to true union as well as greatness . “ I ...
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Page 47 - Man is his own star; and the soul that can Render an honest and a perfect man, Commands all light, all influence, all fate; Nothing to him falls early or too late. Our acts our angels are, or good or ill, Our fatal shadows that walk by us still.
Page 53 - They do not seem to me to be such; but if I am the Devil's child, I will live then from the Devil." No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my constitution ; the only wrong, what is against it.
Page 46 - We will walk on our own feet; we will work with our own hands; we will speak our own minds.
Page 50 - There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide ; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion ; that, though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till.
Page 81 - A political victory, a rise of rents, the recovery of your sick, or the return of your absent friend, or some other favorable event, raises your spirits, and you think good days are preparing for you. Do not believe it. Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Page 57 - 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.
Page 49 - A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Page 52 - 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.
Page 54 - Then again, do not tell me, as a good man did to-day, of my obligation to put all poor men in good situations. Are they my poor? I tell thee, thou foolish philanthropist, that I grudge the dollar, the dime, the cent I give to such men as do not belong to me and to whom I do not belong.
Page 66 - Life only avails, not the having lived. Power ceases in the instant of repose ; it resides in the moment of transition from a past to a new state, in the shooting of the gulf, in the darting to an aim.