on self-reliance part four


very messy notes*

  • consistency is a virtue for emerson that's not exactly true
  • when we learn a new idea we actually make a physical change in our minds the space of our brain changes
  • for emerson when we learn new things, 
  • if we have  a better idea we should get it. 
  •  a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds
  • he imagines writing his works and imagines nobody is going that the people were the center of the earth
  • socrates were not understood so he was put to death just as jesus
  • so what if people don't understand you!
  • you might decide to be different one day but you're still apart of something big
  • Men imagine that they communicate their virtue or vice only by overt actions, and do not see that virtue or vice emit a breath every moment.
  • Honor is venerable to us because it is no ephemeris. It is always ancient virtue. We worship it to-day because it is not of to-day. We love it and pay it homage, because it is not a trap for our love and homage, but is self-dependent, self-derived, and therefore of an old immaculate pedigree, even if shown in a young person.
  • weak think were not 
  • what kind of a ripple effect we make????



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