..."There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that imitation is suicide" ; "What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think"; "My life is for itself and not for a spectacle"; "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little...

..."There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that imitation is suicide" ; "What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think"; "My life is for itself and not for a spectacle"; "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little...

...actually am, and do not need for my own isurance or the assurance of my fellows any secondary stimony. What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the ;ople think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in tellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction...

...That—personal development and adaptation to environment—is, I think, about the whole story of "education." "What I must do is all that concerns me; not what...people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is the harder,...

...performance, of his cogito. In his eighth paragraph he writes: "Few and mean as my gifts may be, I actually am, and do not need for my own assurance or the assurance of my fellows any secondary testimony." Earlier in the paragraph he had said: "My life is for itself and not for a spectacle. . . . I ask primary...

...is your duty better than you know it/ one must inevitably follow the call of one's convictions, for 'What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think/ even though in a superficial sense 'It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion' (893)....

...self-recovery is the simple affirmation that I am a self: "Few and mean as my gifts may be, I actually am, and do not need for my own assurance or the assurance of my fellows any secondary testimony" (SR, 31). Such selfaffirmations may be condemned, as the Christian ascetic tradition has done, as unseemly...

...should fall, that it might testify of that particular ray. Few and mean as my gifts may be, I actually am, and do not need for my own assurance or the assurance of my fellows any secondary testimony. The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you is that it scatters your force....

...dead. For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive." — I. Cor. 15:21. Y\,rHAT I MUST DO, is all that concerns me, .not what the...meanness. It is the harder because you will always And those who think they know what is your duty, better than you know it. It is easy in the world to...

...of your own mind." Correspondingly, he asserted, "Whoso would be a man, must be a nonconformist ... What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think."64 Today, this creed remains one of the foundations of our culture: Robert Mullah describes...