If we live truly, we shall see truly.
Interpretation
Living authentically allows us to perceive reality clearly.
This quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson suggests that authenticity in our lives leads to clear and true perceptions of the world around us. When we embrace our true selves and live genuinely, we are better equipped to see things as they really are, free from the distortions created by pretense or societal expectations.
In practice
In a motivational speech about personal growth and authenticity.
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?
If the clockwork universe equated the human body with the mechanics of the clock, the digital universe now equates human consciousness with the processing of the computer. We joke that things don't compute, that we need a reboot, or that our memory has been wiped.
Eternity is not an unending succession of days in the calendar, but something more like the supreme moment of satisfaction, in which totality embraces us and we embrace totality.
He that gives quickly gives twice.
I love America because it is a confused, chaotic mess - and I hope we can keep it this way for at least another thousand years. The permissive society is the free society.
Crimes lead into one another. They who are capable of being forgers, are capable of being incendiaries.
If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.
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