#philosophy
The Idealist Thinker.
“The sham of civilization is apparent when we realise what forces the majority of people to assume false lives, to live in conflict with their inner convictions.
The idealist must keep silent or be reviled; the thinker must hold his peace or be persecuted; the mystic dares not share his vision with the world which, though aware that he is right, will crucify him if not in body at least in soul.
Hence, those with little knowledge babble continuously and their words become the laws of men. While those of nobler vision must remain unknown, unhonoured and unsung.
Never can we rise to the true heights seen by the eyes of the idealist while we are in servitude to the inferior part of ourselves.”
– Lectures on Ancient Philosophy,
Manly P. Hall.
