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What does this quote mean? the person is an existentialist?
Emerson once stated, “It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.”
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Be yourself, be true to yourself, and know who you are.
Anything else is bullcrap.
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emerson advocated the importance of getting away from the hectic, scheduled busy town life. The part about independence of solitude is basically saying that being left alone, with time to reflect in nature is important to become a self-thinking person who isn’t influenced by society
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I think it means it’s easy to let someone else decide how you should live, and it’s easy to hide away so as not to be pressured to live a certain way, but the greatest man is the one who in the midst of very judgmental people can still march to the beat of his OWN drum, and stand up for his OWN convictions.
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Genius. This quote is a great observation of the true meaning of success in a social environment, which is not in pleasing the polis (the crowd), but in introspective peace, or self-fulfillment by finding fulfillment of one’s own purpose and placing it before pleasing the group.
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Reminds me of Henry David Thoreau in Walden or Shirley Jackson.
It means, you may get their quicker in the band wagon, but you’ll only win the marathon by streching your legs and walking the hard long road alone.
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I’d call it a bit of philosophy from a poet’s pen! It’s about a man who is content within himself…no matter how many have an opinion different than his own.
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Adaptation.
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It means he thinks outside of the box and not afraid to be innovative. The opposite is called and essentialist.(more conservative)
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You know what that means; we are responsible for ourselves and our thoughts and actions and that only concerns us, nobody else. It means FREEDOM.
I’ve just finished reading Sartre’s The Age of Reason.
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This mean if you have problem don’t bring it in your work, work as if you do not have any problem, or deal with people as if you do not have any problems in life.
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