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Tag Tag Intuition
Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become.
Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement Address · 2005

Quotes

“Our spontaneous action is always the best.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson · Intellect, 1841 · Primary source

“Follow your genius closely enough, and it will not fail to show you a fresh prospect every hour.”

Henry David Thoreau · Walden, 1849 · Primary source

“The paradox is only a conflict between reality and your feeling of what reality ought to be.”

Richard Feynman · The Feynman Lectures on Physics, 1961-1964 · Primary source

Works

Ralph Waldo Emerson · 1836
Nature

An exploration of humanity’s relationship with nature, arguing that direct experience of the natural world can reveal spiritual and intellectual truths.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson · 1841
Intellect

An examination of thought, perception and intuition, arguing that genuine understanding depends on intellectual openness rather than rigid systems or inherited authority.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson · 1842
The Transcendentalist

An account of Transcendentalist thought, emphasising idealism, individual conscience, intuition, spiritual independence, and dissatisfaction with established social conventions.

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