All necessary truth is its own evidence.
Interpretation
Truth is self-evident and does not require external validation.
Ralph Waldo Emerson's quote suggests that inherent truths carry their own validity and do not need external proof or justification. This reflects a philosophical stance that recognizes the intuitive understanding of certain truths that resonate deeply within us without the need for corroboration from others.
In practice
In a speech about critical thinking, one could reference this quote to emphasize the importance of recognizing self-evident truths.
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?
Attach yourself to what is spiritually superior, regardless of what other people think or do. Hold to your true aspirations no matter what is going on around you.
War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.
My aim in helping the patient was not to cause death. My aim was to end suffering. It's got to be decriminalized.
In racing, there is no question who is best - the first one to cross the finish line wins first prize. But with wine, even if you make the best wine in the world, someone isn't going to like it, because it isn't their style. Judging wine is very subjective.
Men create the gods after their own images.
All religions try to benefit people, with the same basic message of the need for love and compassion, for justice and honesty, for contentment.
Subscribe for the occasional hand-picked quote. No noise.