The world, as transformed by this creative deed, is better than it would have been had all else remained the same, but had that deed of treason not been done at all.

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We seek true individuality and the true individuals. But we find them not. For lo,...

We seek true individuality and the true individuals. But we find them not. For lo,...

As for you, my beloved friend, I loyally believe in your uniqueness; but whenever I...

As for you, my beloved friend, I loyally believe in your uniqueness; but whenever I...

Unless you can find some sort of loyalty, you cannot find unity and peace in...

Unless you can find some sort of loyalty, you cannot find unity and peace in...

I never felt a feeling that I knew or could know to be unlike the...

I never felt a feeling that I knew or could know to be unlike the...

No baseness or cruelty of treason so deep or so tragic shall enter our human...

No baseness or cruelty of treason so deep or so tragic shall enter our human...

Of this our true individual life, our present life is a glimpse, a fragment, a...

Of this our true individual life, our present life is a glimpse, a fragment, a...

The other aspect of idealism is the one which gives us our notion of the...

The other aspect of idealism is the one which gives us our notion of the...

Our will makes constantly a sort of agreement with the world, whereby, if the world...

Our will makes constantly a sort of agreement with the world, whereby, if the world...

That this individual life of all of us is not something limited in its temporal...

That this individual life of all of us is not something limited in its temporal...

Listen to any musical phrase or rhythm, and grasp it as a whole, and you...

Listen to any musical phrase or rhythm, and grasp it as a whole, and you...

So far as we live and strive at all, our lives are various, are needed...

So far as we live and strive at all, our lives are various, are needed...

Thinking is like loving or dying. Each of us must do it for ourselves.

Thinking is like loving or dying. Each of us must do it for ourselves.

No consensus of men can make an error erroneous. We can only find or commit...

No consensus of men can make an error erroneous. We can only find or commit...

But you are alone. Yet I never tell what you are. And if your face...

But you are alone. Yet I never tell what you are. And if your face...

And just because God attains and wins and finds this uniqueness, all our lives win...

And just because God attains and wins and finds this uniqueness, all our lives win...

I teach at Harvard that the world and the heavens, and the stars are all...

I teach at Harvard that the world and the heavens, and the stars are all...

If I look to see what I ever did that, for all I now know,...

If I look to see what I ever did that, for all I now know,...

For myself, I do not now know in any concrete human terms wherein my individuality...

For myself, I do not now know in any concrete human terms wherein my individuality...

Interfere with the reality of my world, and you therefore take the very life and...

Interfere with the reality of my world, and you therefore take the very life and...

For the Absolute, as we now know, all life is individual, but is individual as...

For the Absolute, as we now know, all life is individual, but is individual as...