Self-Reliance Self-Reliance "Self-Reliance" is an 1841 essay written by American transcendentalist philosopher and essayist Ralph Waldo Emerson. It contains the most thorough statement of one of Emerson's recurrent themes: the need for each individual to avoid conformity and false consistency, and follow their own instincts and ideas. It is the source of one of Emerson's most famous quotations: "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines." This essay is an analysis into the nature of the “aboriginal self on which a universal reliance may be grounded.” The first hint of the philosophy
Days and Nights of Love and War between Galeano's earlier journalistic work and his later more literary output; it was the first of a series of works (culminating in his "Memory of Fire" trilogy) which established his reputation as a writer. It inspired the anarchist collective CrimethInc.'s 2001 manifesto "Days of War, Nights of Love", which shares its mixed form, aphoristic style and embrace of philosophy and morality as weapons within a political superstructure. Days and Nights of Love and War Days and Nights of Love and War () is a 1978 book by Uruguayan writer Eduardo Galeano. It was published in English translation in 1982 by