A fly is as untamable as a hyena.
Interpretation
Both a fly and a hyena symbolize creatures that cannot be easily controlled or domesticated.
This quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson suggests that certain aspects of life, much like nature itself, are inherently wild and unmanageable. Just as a fly flits about freely and a hyena exhibits its unpredictable and instinctual behaviors, there are elements of existence that resist human attempts at control, reflecting the importance of recognizing and accepting the untamed aspects of the world.
In practice
In a motivational speech about resilience and accepting life's unpredictability.
It is plain that there is no separate essence called courage, no cup or cell in the brain, no vessel in the heart containing drops or atoms that make or give this virtue; but it is the right or healthy state of every man, when he is free to do that which is constitutional to him to do.
Few people have any next, they live from hand to mouth without a plan, and are always at the end of their line.
Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations
Tis the good reader that makes the good book; a good head cannot read amiss: in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakeably meant for his ear.
The world belongs to the energetic.
Hast thou named all the birds without a gun?
Nothing in the nature around us is evil. This needs to be repeated since one of the human ways of talking oneself into inhuman acts is to cite the supposed cruelty of nature.
Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one.
Because not even the least Dharma is there found or got at. Therefore is it called 'utmost, right and perfect enlightenment'. Self-identical is that Dharma and nothing is therein at variance. Therefore is it called 'utmost, right and perfect enlighten'
I do not believe in God, because I believe in man. Whatever his mistakes, man has for thousands of years been working to undo the botched job your god has made.
The difference between a crime of evil and a crime of illness is the difference between a sin and a symptom.
No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth.
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