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“A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day. — 'Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood.' — Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.”
― Self-Reliance: An Excerpt from Collected Essays, First Series
― Self-Reliance: An Excerpt from Collected Essays, First Series
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B.O.S.S. is a San Francisco-based book club and podcast with a charter to read books of "substance" (see: boring, too long, out-dated, sighhhh as othe ...more
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From November 30, 2009 to December 30, 2009, Eames Demetrios, author of the Kcymaerxthaere Travel Guides (Volumes 4 and 6), part of his global work of ...more
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