Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.
Interpretation
Respect individuals for who they are, rather than placing anyone on a pedestal.
This quote emphasizes the importance of valuing each person for their unique qualities and contributions. It warns against idolizing individuals, as doing so can overshadow their humanity and the complexities that make them unique, leading to unrealistic expectations and diminished respect for others.
In practice
During a team meeting to discuss employee recognition, this quote could be used to explain the importance of acknowledging individual contributions without elevating anyone above their peers.
I cannot then believe in this concept of an anthropomorphic God who has the powers of interfering with these natural laws. As I said before, the most beautiful and most profound religious emotion that we can experience is the sensation of the mystical. And this mysticality is the power of all true science.
If I would follow your advice and Jesus could perceive it, he, as a Jewish teacher, surely would not approve of such behavior.
I want to know all Gods thoughts; all the rest are just details.
In the middle of adversity there is great opportunity.
I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the earth will be killed.
To me the worst thing seems to be a school principally to work with methods of fear, force and artificial authority. Such treatment destroys the sound sentiments, the sincerity and the self-confidence of pupils and produces a subservient subject.
On the day I swore to uphold the Hippocratic oath, the small hairs on the back of my neck stood up as I waited for lightning to strike. Who was I, vowing calmly among all these necktied young men to steal life out of nature's jaws, every old time we got half a chance and a paycheck?... I could not accept the contract: that every child born human upon this earth comes with a guarantee of perfect health and old age clutched in its small fist.
Donβt worry about achieving. Donβt worry about perfection. Just be there each moment as best you can.
The real destroyer of inner peace is fear and distrust. Fear develops frustration, frustration develops anger, anger develops violence.
You see yourself as a good product that sits on a shelf and sells well, and people make a lot of money out of you.
Drop guilt! - because to be guilty is to live in hell. Not being guilty, you will have the freshness of dewdrops in the early morning sun, you will have the freshness of lotus petals in the lake, you will have the freshness of the stars in the night. Once guilt disappears you will have a totally different kind of life, luminous and radiant. You will have a dance to your feet and your heart will be singing a thousand and one songs.
God speaks in the silence of the heart.
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