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3 days ago · Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. Absolve you to yourself, and you shall have the suffrage of the world. Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love.
Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. Absolve you to yourself, and you shall have the suffrage of the world. I remember an answer which when quite young I was prompted to make to a valued adviser, who was wont to importune me with the dear old doctrines of the church.
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Aug 26, 2016 · The quote above, therefore, is another in that same vein. For me, it appeals to the reader to shrug off the effects of other people's thinking and to honour your own, to connect with the inherent goodness of the Individual Self and to ignore the masses and the institutions of government and church.
Sep 26, 2014 · Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.” Emerson’s ideal of self-reliance is a celebration of the individual par excellence. When we read passages like the ones above, we are probably faced with one of two kinds of intuitions.
Feb 15, 2009 · Yesterday I quoted Christopher Hitchens as saying that nothing is sacred. I now ask what it means to say that nothing is sacred. I think it means something like the following. Nothing, nothing at all, is holy, venerable, worthy of worship; nothing is an appropriate object of reverence.
Sep 4, 2024 · “A non-religious man today ignores what he considers sacred but, in the structure of his consciousness, could not be without the ideas of being and the meaningful. He may consider these purely human aspects of the structure of consciousness.
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“Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance: An Excerpt from Collected Essays, First Series