I wish to say what I think and feel today, with the proviso that tomorrow perhaps I shall contradict it all.
Interpretation
This quote reflects the idea that thoughts and feelings are subject to change over time.
Ralph Waldo Emerson expresses the fluid nature of human thought and emotion in this quote. He acknowledges that while he wishes to express his current beliefs and feelings honestly, he also recognizes that these may evolve or change in the future, highlighting the transient nature of perception and understanding.
In practice
In a discussion about personal growth and the evolution of beliefs.
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?
Despotism is a legitimate mode of government in dealing with barbarians, provided the end be their improvement.
MATERIAL, adj. Having an actual existence, as distinguished from an imaginary one. Important.
. . . persist in that invocation until the unity of the world is subsumed for you in a single sphere, so that with the eye of your heart you will see naught in the two worlds save the One.
The path up is the path down. The way forward is the way back. The universe inside is outside but the universe outside is inside.
However passionate, sinning, and rebellious the heart hidden in the tomb, the flowers growing over it peep serenely at us with their innocent eyes; they tell us not of eternal peace alone, of that great peace of "indifferent" nature: they tell us, too, of eternal reconciliation and of life without end.
If you are happy in a dream, Ammu, does that count? Estha asked. "Does what count?" "The happiness does it count?". She knew exactly what he meant, her son with his spoiled puff. Because the truth is, that only what counts, counts....."If you eat fish in a dream, does it count?" Does it mean you've eaten fish?
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