I will follow my logic, no matter where it goes, after it has consulted with my heart. If you ever come to a conclusion without calling the heart in, you will come to a bad conclusion.
Robert Green IngersollRead
Fear, prejudice, malice, and the love of approbation bribe a thousand men where gold bribes one.
Interpretation
The quote suggests that fear and social approval can influence people more powerfully than money.
In this quote, Robert Green Ingersoll highlights the powerful forces of fear, prejudice, and the desire for approval that can manipulate human behavior, suggesting that these emotional and psychological influences can sway people's decisions and actions far more often than financial temptation. He implies that the desire to conform and seek acceptance can lead to moral compromises and actions that might not align with one's true self.
In practice
In a motivational speech about overcoming fear and social anxiety.
I will follow my logic, no matter where it goes, after it has consulted with my heart. If you ever come to a conclusion without calling the heart in, you will come to a bad conclusion.
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The religion that has to be supported by law is without value, not only, but a fraud and a curse. The religious argument that has to be supported by a musket is hardly worth making.
There is no slavery but ignorance.
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Not a whole lot of us are wrestling somebody for a canned food item in the supermarket or having an ax fight in the jungle clearing. Instead, we sit and think about taxes and the ozone layer.
What is at stake is human dignity. If a man is not accorded respect he cannot respect himself and if he does not respect himself, he cannot demand it.
The misery we inflict on sentient beings slackens our human evolution.
Jews read the books of Moses not just as history but as divine command. The question to which they are an answer is not, 'What happened?' but rather, 'How then shall I live?' And it's only with the exodus that the life of the commands really begins.
A man sets out to draw the world. As the years go by, he peoples a space with images of provinces, kingdoms, mountains, bays, ships, islands, fishes, rooms, instruments, stars, horses, and individuals. A short time before he dies, he discovers that the patient labyrinth of lines traces the lineaments of his own face.
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