The Edit
View all →Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one.
Marcus Aurelius
Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.
Mary Shelley
I dwell in Possibility—
Emily Dickinson
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
Henry David Thoreau
The Quoteiac Journal

The Object That Holds the Thought
The tee is the flag. The mug is the practice. On why quote objects — phone cases, mugs, journals, tumblers — do something apparel can’t: they find you when you’re not looking.
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The Man Behind the Man at Walden Pond
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) was an American essayist, lecturer, and philosopher whose 1841 essay Self-Reliance became the foundational text of American Transcendentalism — and
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Father’s Day Gifts for the Dad Who Reads and Thinks
Philosophy, literature, and serious nonfiction are the hardest categories to buy gifts for — because the person already has the books that matter to them. This guide is for the family trying to find something that matches the way he actually thinks, not the way a generic gift guide assumes he does.
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