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Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated.
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Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood; and if there is any truth in him, if he rests at last on the divine soul, i see not how it can be otherwise. the last chamber, the last closet, he must feel, was never opened; there is always a residuum unknown, unanalyzable. that is, every man believes that he has a greater possibility.
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As collective consciousness goes higher and higher, all the differences in the world will be appreciated more and more. a definition of peace is unity in the midst of diversity. or you could say happiness, love, and peace in the midst of all diversity. all the differences would be appreciated fully in the light of this peace.
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Every man that tried to destroy the government, every man that shot at the holy flag in heaven, every man that starved our soldiers... every man that wanted to burn the negro, every one that wanted to scatter yellow fever in the north, every man that opposed human liberty, that regarded the auction-block as an altar and the howling of the bloodhound as the music of the union, every man who wept over the corpse of slavery, that thought lashes on the naked back were a legal tender for labour performed, every one willing to rob a mother of her child - every solitary one was a democrat.
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The fact about himself that the liar hides is that he is attempting to lead us away from a correct apprehension of reality; we are not to know that he wants us to believe something he supposes to be false. the fact about himself that the bullshitter hides, on the other hand, is that the truth-values of his statements are of no central interest to him . . . he does not care whether the things he says describe reality correctly. he just picks them out, or makes them up, to suit his purpose.
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Every man speaks and writes with intent to be understood; and it can seldom happen but he that understands himself, might convey his notions to another, if, content to be understood, he did not seek to be admired; but when once he begins to contrive how his sentiments may be received, not with most ease to his reader, but with most advantage to himself, he then transfers his consideration from words to sounds, from sentences to periods, and, as he grows more elegant, becomes less intelligible.
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Man's destructive hand spares nothing that lives; he kills to feed himself, he kills to clothe himself, he kills to adorn himself, he kills to attack, he kills to defend himself, he kills to instruct himself, he kills to amuse himself, he kills for the sake of killing.
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