From Ralph Waldo Emerson: “Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.”
Tag Archives: individualism
Quote of the day 12/16/25
From Richard Rorty: “There is nothing deep down inside us except what we have put there ourselves.”
Quote of the day 09/26/25
From Chrysippus: “If I had followed the multitude, I should not have studied philosophy.”
Quote of the day 09/24/25
From Chrysippus: “I myself think that the wise man meddles little or not at all in affairs and does his own things.”
Quote of the day 07/23/25
From John Donne: “Be thine own palace, or the world’s thy jail.”
Quote of the day 04/22/25
From William Wordsworth: “In ourselves our safety must be sought.By our own right hand it must be wrought.”
Quote of the day 12/10/24
From Friedrich Nietzsche: “You must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame;how could you rise anew if you have not first become ashes?”
Quote of the day 11/26/24
From Lao Tzu: “Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner.”
Quote of the day 09/12/24
From Ludwig Wittgenstein: “The philosopher is not a citizen of any community of ideas, that is what makes him a philosopher.”
Quote of the day 07/27/24
From Ralph Waldo Emerson: “It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.”
