In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs.
Interpretation
This quote reflects the idea of vitality and energy in youth versus the limitations of aging.
Ralph Waldo Emerson's quote suggests that in the morning of life, which symbolizes youth and vitality, a person is full of energy and engages with the world in a more holistic manner. As one ages, represented by the evening, the physical abilities may decline, leading a person to function more merely through their legs, emphasizing the loss of a more dynamic engagement with life.
In practice
During a philosophical discussion about the stages of life.
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?
When you're a trans woman, you are made to walk this very fine line, where if you act feminine you are accused of being a parody, but if you act masculine, it is seen as a sign of your true male identity. And if you act sweet and demure, you're accused of reinforcing patriarchal ideals of female passivity, but if you stand up for your own rights and make your voice heard, then you are dismissed as wielding male privilege and entitlement.
Honest difference of views and honest debate are not disunity. They are the vital process of policy among free men.
If we don't have access to facts, we can't trust each other. Without trust, there's no law. Without law, there's no democracy.
You're captives of a civilizational system that more or less compels you to go on destroying the world in order to live. … You are captives—and you have made a captive of the world itself. That's what's at stake, isn't it?—your captivity and the captivity of the world.
Oh, they never lie. They dissemble, evade, prevaricate, confound, confuse, distract, obscure, subtly misrepresent and willfully misunderstand with what often appears to be a positively gleeful relish and are generally perfectly capable of contriving to give one an utterly unambiguous impression of their future course of action while in fact intending to do exactly the opposite, but they never lie. Perish the thought.
The truth is that everyone is bored, and devotes himself to cultivating habits.
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