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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