You must pay for conformity. All goes well as long as you run with conformists. But you, who are honest men in other particulars, know that there is alive somewhere a man whose honesty reaches to this point also, that he shall not kneel to false gods, and, on the day when you meet him, you sink into the class of counterfeits.


The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations (ed. 1866)

Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

You must pay for conformity. All goes well as long as you run with conformists. But you, who are honest men in other particulars, know that there is...

You must pay for conformity. All goes well as long as you run with conformists. But you, who are honest men in other particulars, know that there is...

You must pay for conformity. All goes well as long as you run with conformists. But you, who are honest men in other particulars, know that there is...

You must pay for conformity. All goes well as long as you run with conformists. But you, who are honest men in other particulars, know that there is...