The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself.
Interpretation
Inner disunity leads to external disharmony in the world.
Ralph Waldo Emerson's quote emphasizes that the discord within individuals reflects in the larger world, resulting in a lack of unity among people. When individuals are not at peace with themselves or lack self-understanding, it manifests in societal fragmentation and challenges in achieving collective harmony.
In practice
This quote can be used during discussions about mental health awareness to emphasize self-acceptance.
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?
It will be remembered, that a frequent recurrence to fundamental principles is solemnly enjoined by most of the state constitutions, and particularly by our own, as a necessary safeguard against the danger of degeneracy, to which republics are liable, as well as other governments, though in a less degree than others.
My objection to organized religion is the premature conclusion to ultimate truth that it represents.
The morality of clean blood ought to be one of the first lessons taught us by our pastors and teachers. The physical is the substratum of the spiritual; and this fact ought to give to the food we eat, and the air we breathe, a transcendent significance.
The subject then of these chapters may be stated thus, - man's only righteousness is through the mercy of God in Christ, which being offered by the Gospel is apprehended by faith.
There's nothing so passionate as a vested interest disguised as an intellectual conviction.
No one's policing their own minds more than an author. You spend a lot of time in your own head analysing what you think about things, and a philosophy comes.
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