All science has one aim, namely, to find a theory of nature.

We place no reliance On virgin or pigeon; Our Method is Science, Our Aim is Religion.

— Aleister Crowley

And truly it demands something god like in him who has cast off the common motives of humanity, and has ventured to trust himself…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men that is…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

And so the reliance on Property, including the reliance on governments which protect it, is the want of self-reliance.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The basis of good manners is self-reliance. Necessity is the law of all who are not self-possessed.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I read the other day some verses written by an eminent painter which were original and not conventional. The soul always hears an admonition…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The masses have no habit of self-reliance or original action.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

For it is not metres, but a metre-making argument that makes a poem, - a thought so passionate and alive that like the spirit…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

We but half express ourselves, and are ashamed of that divine idea which each of us represents.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you is, that it scatters your force.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The relations of the soul to the divine spirit are so pure, that it is profane to seek to interpose helps.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Welcome evermore to gods and men is the self-helping man.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

To speak truly, few adult persons can see nature. Most persons do not see the sun.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members. The virtue in most request is conformity. Self-reliance is its…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson