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| 56d320c | The heroic books, even if printed in the character of our mother tongue, will always be in a language dead to degenerate times; and we must laboriously seek the meaning of each word and line, conjecturing a larger sense than common use permits out of what wisdom and valor and generosity we have. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| 0c86d03 | Here is this vast, savage, howling mother of ours, Nature, lying all around, with such beauty, and such affection for her children, as the leopard; and yet we are so early weaned from her breast to society, to that culture which is exclusively an interaction of man on man -- a sort of breeding in and in, which produces at most a merely English nobility, a civilization destined to have a speedy limit. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| 4bce7f9 | A distinguished clergyman told me that he chose the profession of a clergyman because it afforded the most leisure for literary pursuits. I would recommend to him the profession of a governor. | incompetence politicians | Henry David Thoreau | |
| 914c2c5 | As surely as the sunset in my latest November shall translate me to the ethereal world, and remind me of the ruddy morning of youth; as surely as the last strain of music which falls on my decaying ear shall make age to be forgotten, or, in short, the manifold influences of nature survive during the term of our natural life, so surely my Friend shall forever be my Friend, and reflect a ray of God to me, and time shall foster and adorn and c.. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| 0053b47 | I would remind my countrymen that they are to be men first, and Americans only at a late and convenient hour. | patriotism | Henry David Thoreau | |
| 95c9a62 | In dreams we see ourselves naked and acting out our real characters, even more clearly than we see others awake. But an unwavering and commanding virtue would compel even its most fantastic and faintest dreams to respect its ever wakeful authority; as we are accustomed to say carelessly, we should never have dreamed of such a thing. Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| d2627de | There is no odor so bad as that which arises from goodness tainted. It is human, it is divine, carrion. If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life, as from that dry and parching wind of the African deserts called the simoom, which fills the mouth and nose and ears and eyes with dust till you are suffocated, for fear that I should get some of his good done .. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| 59b31cf | I saw to what extent the people among whom I lived could be trusted as good neighbors and friends; that their friendship was for summer weather only; that they did not greatly propose to do right; that they were a distinct race from me by their prejudices and superstitions, | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| 694d6a2 | To anticipate, not the sunrise and the dawn merely, but, if possible, Nature herself! How many mornings, summer and winter, before yet any neighbor was stirring about his business, have I been about mine...So many autumn, ay, and winter days, spent outside the town, trying to hear what was in the wind, to hear and carry it express! I well-nigh sunk all my capital in it, and lost my own breath into the bargain, running in the face of it. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| d6f4bfa | I've been living out loud the Henry David Thoreau saying: "What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals." The quest of the Cuba" | Diana Nyad | ||
| 4009d9e | What does Africa -- what does the West stand for? Is not our own interior white on the chart? black though it may prove, like the coast, when discovered. Is it the source of the Nile, or the Niger, or the Mississippi, or a Northwest Passage around this continent, that we would find? Are these the problems which most concern mankind? Is Franklin the only man who is lost, that his wife should be so earnest to find him? Does Mr. Grinnell know .. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| 54a3539 | In 1881, being on a visit to Boston, my wife and I found ourselves in the Parker House with the 's, and went over to Charleston to hear him lecture. His subject was 'Some Mistakes of Moses,' and it was a memorable experience. Our lost leaders, -- , , Theodore Parker, -- who had really spoken to disciples rather than to the nation, seemed to have contributed something to form this organ by which their voice could reach the people. . The .. | art boston emerson emotion friendship henry-d-thoreau henry-david-thoreau henry-thoreau honor humor imagination ingersoll inspirational laughter lecture logic love memorable mirth morality orator paine pathos poetry power praise ralph-e-emerson ralph-emerson ralph-waldo-emerson reason respect robert-g-ingersoll robert-green-ingersoll robert-ingersoll simplicity some-mistakes-of-moses speech sympathy tears thomas-paine thoreau truth voice wisdom | Moncure Daniel Conway | |
| 3511d81 | Sometimes we are inclined to class those who are once-and-a-half witted with the half-witted, because we appreciate only a third part of their wit. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| 39b2e86 | Probably no country was ever ruled by so mean a class of tyrants as, with a few noble exceptions, are the editors of the periodical press in this country. And as they live and rule only by their servility, and appealing to the worst, and not the better nature of man, the people who read them are in the condition of the dog that returns to his vomit. | newspapers | Henry David Thoreau | |
| c8a2f9c | I have traveled a good deal in Concord; and everywhere, in shops, and offices, and fields, the inhabitants have appeared to me to be doing penance in a thousand remarkable ways. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| 54a2124 | If I devote myself to other pursuits and contemplations, I must first see, at least, that I do not pursue them sitting upon another man's shoulders. I must get off him first, that he may pursue his contemplations too. See what gross inconsistency is tolerated. I have heard some of my townsmen say, "I should like to have them order me out to help put down an insurrection of the slaves, or to march to Mexico--see if I would go"; and yet these.. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| c8ac054 | I love even to see the domestic animals reassert their native rights -- any evidence that they have not wholly lost their original wild habits and vigor; as when my neighbor's cow breaks out of her pasture early in the Spring and boldly swims the river, a cold grey tide, twenty-five or thirty rods wide, swollen by the melted snow. It is the Buffalo crossing the Mississippi. | nature philosophy | Henry David Thoreau | |
| d4bcb2c | If the injustice is part of the necessary friction of the machine of government, let it go, let it go: perchance it will wear smooth--certainly the machine will wear out. If the injustice has a spring, or a pulley, or a rope, or a crank, exclusively for itself, then perhaps you may consider whether the remedy will not be worse than the evil; but if it is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then I s.. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| a38b4ee | A minority is powerless while it conforms to the majority; it is not even a minority then; but it is irresistible when it clogs by its whole weight. If the alternative is to keep all just men in prison, or give up war and slavery, the State will not hesitate which to choose. If a thousand men were not to pay their tax bills this year, that would not be a violent and bloody measure, as it would be to pay them, and enable the State to commit .. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| 905516b | Many a forenoon have I stolen away, preferring to spend thus the most valued part of the day; for I was rich, if not in money, in sunny hours and summer days, and spent them lavishly; nor do I regret that I did not waste more of them in the workshop or the teacher's desk. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| dfd3600 | It is hard to have a Southern overseer; it is worse to have a Northern one; but worst of all when you are the slave-driver of yourself. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| 707215f | I would rather ride on earth in an ox cart, with a free circulation, than go to heaven in the fancy car of an excursion train and breathe a malaria all the way...But lo! men have become the tools of their tools...We have built for this world a family mansion, and for the next a family tomb. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| c3b7ece | Be it life or death, we crave only reality. If we are really dying, let us hear the rattle in our throats and feel cold in the extremities; if we are alive, let us go about our business. Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it; but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Its thin current slides away, but eternity remains. I would drink deeper; fish in the sky, whose bottom is pebbly with stars. I c.. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| 87a4038 | yHdth ltGyr fy lwZyf@ `ndm ytwqf ltmlk `n kwnh wsyl@ llsh`wr bHywy@ wntjy@ '`Zm, wytHwl l~ wsyl@ llsthlk lslby lHsy. `ndm tkwn wZyf@ ltmlk l'ssy@ rD Hjt lsthlk lmtzyd@, fnh ('y ltmlk) sytwqf `n kwnh Hl@ tDyf l~ "lkynwn@", wln ykhtlf `n "lmtlk ltwfyry"." | Erich Fromm | ||
| ba6f711 | We have seen, then, that certain socioeconomic changes, notably the decline of the middle class and the rising power of monopolistic capital, had a deep psychological effect... Nazism resurrected the lower middle class psychologically while participating in the destruction of its old socioeconomic position. It mobilized its emotional energies to become an important force in the struggle for the economic and political aims of Germain imperia.. | imperialism middle-class nazi | Erich Fromm | |
| 01df01e | They were more free, but they were more alone. | psychology | Erich Fromm | |
| aaada27 | There were always men who looked beyond the dimensions of their own society- and while they may have been called fools or criminals in their time they are the roster of great men as far as the record of human history is concerned- and visualized something which can be called universally human and which is not identical with what a particular society assumes human nature to be. There were always men who were bold and imaginative enough to se.. | individualism individualist society unique-people universality | Erich Fromm | |
| a79ce06 | l`l mn lTryf f~ hdh lSdd 'n ndhkr hn 'n 'Hd lmw'rkhyn lthq@ yw'kd ln 'nh fym byn `m 1500 w 1860 b`d lmyld wq`t ldwl m ynyf `n thmny@ alf m`hd@ llSlH, thdf kl mnh l~ syd@ lslm ldy'm byn lsh`wb, wlm tdm wHd@ mnh 'kthr mn `myn ! | Erich Fromm | ||
| 10e818e | nn l nnkr 'n lnsny@ wsT hdh lDjyj wl`jyj l t`dm nfran mn l`ql bndwn b`qd m`hdt lSlH wnshr 'lwy@ lslm f~ rbw` l`lm b'srh. Gyr 'n qSr~ m ybdhlh hw'l l`ql mn jhd l y`dw 'n ykwn klmt mktwb@ wHbran `l~ wrq. l`l mn lTryf f~ hdh lSdd 'n ndhkr hn 'n 'Hd lmw'rkhyn lthq@ yw'kd ln 'nh fym byn `m 1500 w 1860 b`d lmyld wq`t ldwl m ynyf `n thmny@ alf m`hd@ llSlH, thdf kl mnh l~ syd@ lslm ldy'm byn lsh`wb, wlm tdm wHd@ mnh 'kthr mn `myn ! | Erich Fromm | ||
| 0127538 | Si percibo en otra persona nada mas que lo superficial, percibo principalmente las diferencias, lo que nos separa. Si penetro hasta el nucleo, percibo nuestra identidad, el hecho de nuestra hermandad. | humanity life love peace | Erich Fromm | |
| 32c2106 | The development of man's intellectual capacities has far outstripped the development of his emotions. Man's brain lives in the twentieth century; the heart of most men lives still in the Stone Age. The majority of men have not yet acquired the maturity to be independent, to be rational, to be objective. They need myths and idols to endure the fact that man is all by himself, that there is no authority which gives meaning to life except man .. | psychology | Erich Fromm | |
| 4108da7 | Yet all this bespeaks a dim realization of the truth--the truth that modern man lives under the illusion that he knows what he wants, while he actually wants what he is supposed to want. In order to accept this it is necessary to realize that to know what one really wants is not comparatively easy, as most people think, but one of the most difficult problems any human being has to solve. It is a task we frantically try to avoid by accepting.. | Erich Fromm | ||
| 9f68638 | If one candle is brought into an absolutely dark room, the darkness disappears, and there is light. But if ten or a hundred or a thousand candles are added, the room will become brighter and brighter. Yet the decisive change was brought about by the first candle which penetrated the darkness.57 | Erich Fromm | ||
| a1c71cb | Whether a carpenter makes a table, or a goldsmith a piece of jewelry, whether the peasant grows his corn, or the painter paints a picture, in all types of creative work the worker and his object become one, man unites himself with the world in the process of creation. This, however, holds true only for productive work, for work in which I plan, produce, see the result of my work. In the modern work process of a clerk, the worker on the endl.. | Erich Fromm | ||
| 24e162d | Since the values of the market were the highest criteria, persons also became valued as commodities which could be bought and sold. A person's worth is then his salable market value, whether it is skill or 'personality' that is up for sale. [...] The market value, then, becomes the individual's valuation of himself, so that self-confidence and 'self-feeling' (ones experience of identity with one's self) are largely reflections of what other.. | capitalism culture self-esteem self-wort society | Rollo May | |
| 09f3ecc | Man is gifted with reason; he is life being aware of itself he has awareness of himself, of his fellow man, of his past, and of the possibilities of his future. This awareness of himself as a separate entity, the awareness of his own short life span, of the fact that without his will he is born and against his will he dies, that he will die before those whom he loves, or they before him, the awareness of his aloneness and separateness, of h.. | Erich Fromm | ||
| 0c4659d | Meister Eckhart on this topic: "If you love yourself, you love everybody else as you do yourself. As long as you love another person less than you love yourself, you will not really succeed in loving yourself, but if you love all alike, including yourself, you will love them as one person and that person is both God and man. Thus he is a great and righteous person who, loving himself, loves all others equally."[14]" | Erich Fromm | ||
| a9c3fc2 | Mental health cannot be defined in terms of the "adjustment" of the individual to his society, but, on the other hand, that it must be defined in terms of the society to the needs of man, of its role in furthering or hindering the development of mental health. Whether or not the individual is healthy, is primarily not an individual matter, but depends on the structure of his society." | Erich Fromm | ||
| e9e717a | The supreme principle of socialism is that man takes precedence over things, life over property, and hence, work over capital; that power follows creation, and not possession; that man must not be governed by circumstances, but circumstances must be governed by man. | political-philosophy socialism work | Erich Fromm | |
| 6d8f2f4 | God explains to Jonah that the essence of love is to "labor" for something and "to make something grow," | Erich Fromm | ||
| 3ed8974 | For centuries kings, priests, feudal lords, industrial bosses and parents have insisted that obedience is a virtue and that disobedience is a vice. | obedience | Erich Fromm | |
| bf50ca6 | Let your deeds be judged, and from your deeds, your real intentions. But know that a free person owes an explanation only to himself, to his reason and his conscious, and to the few who may have a justified claim for explanation. | Erich Fromm | ||
| 81282cb | Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction. | Erich Fromm | ||
| cb6ce03 | It seems that nothing is more difficult for the average man to bear than the feeling of not being identified with a larger group. | Erich Fromm |