John O. Andersen

Ralph Waldo Emerson:

"You must pay for conformity. All goes well as long as you run with
conformists. But you, who are honest men in other particulars, know that
there is alive somewhere a man whose honesty reaches to this point also,
that he shall not kneel to false gods, and, on the day when you meet him,
you sink into the class of counterfeits."

and

"Who so would be a man, must be a nonconformist."

and

"A man must consider what a rich realm he abdicates when he becomes a
conformist."



For a good read, I highly recommend Emerson's essay "Self-Reliance."

http://www.jjnet.com/emerson/selfreliance.htm


John Andersen
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