The World exists for you ; Build therefore your own world - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Build therefore your own world.

"Let us even bid our dearest friends farewell, and defy them, saying, "Who are you? Unhand me: I will be dependent no more." Ah! seest thou not, O brother, that thus we part only to meet again on a higher platform, and only be more each other's, because we are more our own?"

Genius borrows nobly. When Shakespeare is charged with debts to his authors, Landor replies: "Yet he was more original than his originals. He breathed upon dead bodies and brought them into life".

I regard it as the irresistible effect of the Copernican astronomy to have made the theological scheme of redemption absolutely incredible