💬 Quotes

"It is not hesitation, but resolution, that is the distinguishing characteristic of great minds."

"The spirit of self-help is the root of all genuine growth in the individual; and, exhibited in the lives of many, it constitutes the true source of national vigor and strength."

"Knowledge can only be got by painstaking effort. There is no Royal road to learning; neither is there an easy path to skill, or success in life."

"Character is one of the greatest motive powers in the world. In its noblest aspects, it is exemplary, inspiring, and contagious."

"Men who are continually looking to others to govern them, and provide for them, soon become incapable of any independent action."

"The object of this Essay is to explain as clearly as I am able, the grounds of an opinion which I have held from the very earliest period when I had formed any opinions at all on social or political subjects... That the principle which regulates the existing social relations between the two sexes—the legal subordination of one sex to the other—is wrong in itself, and now one of the chief hindrances to human improvement."

"So long as the general opinion of the majority of mankind puts the word 'right' as the synonym of 'natural,' so long there will be nothing so unnatural as a great change, and no offense to common sense so great as that which makes an old established custom cease to seem natural."

"What is now called the nature of women is an eminently artificial thing—the result of forced repression in some directions, unnatural stimulation in others."

"The master of a woman's house as well as the master of his own, is not enough; she must be as much as possible at his beck and call, constantly occupied in pleasing him, and excluded from every other possible occupation."

"The greatest hindrance to human advancement is to be found in this, that the intellect and energies of half the human race are habitually repressed and crippled."

"Like a religion, it is taught in childhood; its precepts are continually whispered by insidious voices; the status quo is maintained by public opinion and enforced by law, until it comes to be regarded as part of the immutable constitution of nature."

"Their *esse* is *percipi*, nor is it possible they should have any existence out of the minds or thinking things which perceive them."

"It is indeed an opinion strangely prevailing amongst men, that houses, mountains, rivers, and in a word all sensible objects, have an existence, natural or real, distinct of their being perceived by the understanding."

"But, say you, though the ideas themselves do not exist without the mind, yet there may be things like them whereof they are copies or resemblances, which things exist without the mind, in an unthinking substance."

"Light and colors, heat and cold, extension and figure—in a word the things we see and feel—what are they so many sensations, notions, ideas, or impressions on the sense? And is it possible to separate, even in thought, any of these from perception?"

"From what has been said, it follows there is not any other substance than spirit, or that which perceives."

"We may indeed assert that the great Creator and Preserver of all things does continually imprint on our minds all those sensible ideas, which we call the works of nature."

"Law in the visible Universe is but the Gottes-plan in the invisible."

"To obey the elements in the physical world is to be free. And so the ultimate freedom of the spiritual man is to be found in an enthusiastic obedience to spiritual law."

"Natural Law is not to be separated from the Divine Law; it is simply the expression of the Divine Mind operating through physical and spiritual mediums."