A MAN WHOSE HONESTY REACHES THIS POINT
August 31st, 2023 | San Francisco, CA
My notes on conformity from my readings by Ralph Waldo Emmerson:
“All goes well as long as you run with the conformists. But you, who are an honest man in other particulars, know that there is alive somewhere a man whose honesty reaches to this point also, that he shall not kneel to false gods, and, on the day when you meet him, you sink into the class of counterfeits.”
“It is only as a man puts off all foreign support, and stands alone, that I see him to be strong and to prevail. He is weaker by every recruit to his banner.”
“There is a time in every man’s education when he arrives at the conviction… that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that ground which is given to him to till. The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried.”
-Ralph Waldo Emmerson
