- "...And because we are dressed in arts and institutions; as he puts it, it is easy to feel functional, to feel whole and self-sufficient by flowing with society's standards. ...In the world, solitude is impractical and society is fatal."
- "The integrity of our mind, as Emerson puts it will be the validating criterion for our lives."
- "What we discover in ourselves becomes compelling because it constantly reinforces our strengths, abilities, and will. ...A great man is able to remain to himself in the midst of the crowd and remembers to live after his own opinion."
My FAVORITE QUOTE!
- "Nature is the model for primary wisdom. Nature does not refer back to authority or precedent. But man postpones or remembers; he does not live in the present but with reverted eye laments the past or needless of the riches that surround him, stands on tiptoe to foresee the future. He cannot be happy and strong until he too lives with nature in the present, above time. Only with maturation of these virtues can our solitude be truly functional. At that point 'your isolation must not be mechanical but spiritual, that is, must be elevation.' ...The individual will manifest to others a higher ethic, 'eternal law' versus social conformity."
- "The integrity of our mind, as Emerson puts it will be the validating criterion for our lives."
- "What we discover in ourselves becomes compelling because it constantly reinforces our strengths, abilities, and will. ...A great man is able to remain to himself in the midst of the crowd and remembers to live after his own opinion."
My FAVORITE QUOTE!
- "Nature is the model for primary wisdom. Nature does not refer back to authority or precedent. But man postpones or remembers; he does not live in the present but with reverted eye laments the past or needless of the riches that surround him, stands on tiptoe to foresee the future. He cannot be happy and strong until he too lives with nature in the present, above time. Only with maturation of these virtues can our solitude be truly functional. At that point 'your isolation must not be mechanical but spiritual, that is, must be elevation.' ...The individual will manifest to others a higher ethic, 'eternal law' versus social conformity."
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