As a man thinketh, so is he, and as a man chooseth, so is he.
Interpretation
Our thoughts and choices shape who we are.
This quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson emphasizes the power of our thoughts and decisions in shaping our identity and character. It suggests that the way we think influences our actions and ultimately defines us as individuals, highlighting the importance of self-awareness and intentional choices in life.
In practice
During a motivational speech about personal development.
It is plain that there is no separate essence called courage, no cup or cell in the brain, no vessel in the heart containing drops or atoms that make or give this virtue; but it is the right or healthy state of every man, when he is free to do that which is constitutional to him to do.
Few people have any next, they live from hand to mouth without a plan, and are always at the end of their line.
Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations
Tis the good reader that makes the good book; a good head cannot read amiss: in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakeably meant for his ear.
The world belongs to the energetic.
Hast thou named all the birds without a gun?
A democratic civilization will save itself only if it makes the language of the image into a stimulus for critical reflection - not an invitation for hypnosis.
The devil is not as black as he is painted.
Compassion is the basis of morality.
It is, finally, a word is untimely in three different senses, and bearing it as one's treasure will not win one anyone's favours; one rather risks finding oneself outside everyone's camp... Beauty is the word that shall be our first.
How many a dispute could have been deflated into a single paragraph if the disputants had dared to define their terms
No man is above the law, and no man is below it.
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