It matters not what you are thought to be, but what you are. Publilius Syrus (circa 85 – 43 B.C.E.)
Herbert Spencer Quote – “Hero-worship is strongest where…”
Hero-worship is strongest where there is the least regard for human freedom. Herbert Spencer (1820 – 1903)
Robert Southey Quote – “Beast, birds, and insects…”
Beast, birds, and insects, even to the minutest and meanest of their kind, act with the unerring providence of instinct; man, the while, who possesses a higher faculty, abuses it, and therefore goes blundering on. Robert Southey (1774 – 1843)
Robert South Quote – “Men must love the truth…”
Men must love the truth before they thoroughly believe it. Robert South (1634 – 1716)
Guy Finley Quote – “It only seems as if there’s something more important…”
It only seems as if there’s something more important for you to do than to just quietly be yourself. Guy Finley (1949)
Walt Whitman Quote – “I do not give lectures or a little charity…”
I do not give lectures or a little charity, when I give I give myself. Walt Whitman (1819 – 1892)
Walt Whitman Quote – “It is time to explain myself…”
It is time to explain myself… let us stand up. Walt Whitman (1819 – 1892)
Jonathan Swift Quote – “Although men are accused for not knowing their own weakness…”
Although men are accused for not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps as few know their strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of. Jonathan Swift (1667 – 1745)
Jonathan Swift Quote – “It is useless to attempt to reason…”
It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into. Jonathan Swift (1667 – 1745)
Emanuel Swedenborg Quote – “Man does not wish to come out of spiritual servitude…”
Man does not wish to come out of spiritual servitude into spiritual liberty, for the reason, first, that he does not know what spiritual servitude is and what spiritual liberty is; he does not possess the truths that teach this; and without truths, spiritual servitude is believed to be freedom, and spiritual freedom to be servitude. Emanuel Swedenborg (1688 – […]