Emerson - “Self-Reliance”

“As men's prayers are a disease of the will, so are their creeds a disease of the intellect.”

“Their mind being whole, their eye is as yet unconquered, and when we look in their faces, we are disconcerted. Infancy conforms to nobody; all conform to it, so that one babe commonly makes four or five out of the adults who prattle and play to it.”

“Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members.”

Lethe – Forgetfullness, Concealment

Lethal

Aletheia – Un-Forgetfullness, Un-concealment “truth” (Beginning to sound like a Sexson Children's Literature class.... Aletheiometer ;)

The myth, fable of the sot.

When great pressure is put upon you, you go out and become a sot.

“...,let us advance and advance on Chaos and the Dark.”

The sense of obliteration is a feeling we both welcome and fear.

“It seems to be a rule of wisdom never to rely on your memory alone, scarcely even in acts of pure memory, but bring the past for judgment into the thousand-eyed present, and live ever in a new day.”

“A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.”

What If we were to change it to, “A foolish consistency is the fear of little minds,...” does it make his words more clear or does it change it all together.
Walked in here on a whim. Reading Emerson on a whim. Walking around in a whim. We would never have to think, worry, about our first act, we would just do it.