The world is his who can see through its pretension. What deafness, what stone-blind custom, what overgrown error you behold, is there only by sufferance,--by your sufferance. See it to be a lie, and you have already dealt it its mortal blow.
Interpretation
Understanding the world's illusions allows one to transcend them.
Ralph Waldo Emerson's quote emphasizes the importance of perception in discerning the truth behind societal norms and pretensions. By recognizing the falsehoods perpetuated by tradition and custom, one gains power over them, effectively dismantling their influence and asserting personal freedom.
In practice
During a motivational speech about critical thinking and self-awareness.
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?
I had become wealthy as an art dealer, but my life was never rich until I began serving in a mission and began being blessed by those that were basically hopeless. To see them have hope was the biggest blessing in my life.
I am sure that God keeps no one waiting unless he sees that it is good for him to wait.
Making steel may be compared to making a chappati. To make a good chappati, even a golden pin will not work unless the dough is good
Groups are only smart when there is a balance between the information that everyone in the group shares and the information that each of the members of the group holds privately. It's the combination of all those pieces of independent information, some of them right, some of the wrong, that keeps the group wise.
A river reaches places which its source never knows. And Jesus said that, if we have received His fullness, "rivers of living water" will flow out of us, reaching in blessing even "to the end of the earth" regardless of how small the visible effects of our lives may appear to be.
Ninety nine failed solutions equals a gain of 99 pieces of information.
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