“Each individual imagines that he can exist, live, think, and act for himself, and believes that he himself is the thinking principle of his thoughts; whereas in truth he is but a single ray of the ONE universal and necessary Thought.”
Source: The Characteristics of the Present Age (1806), p. 21
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Source: Epigrams, p. 345

Introduction.
An American Bible (1912)
Context: Elbert Hubbard sees, too, that just so long as there is one woman who is denied any right that man claims for himself, there is no free man; that no man can be a superior, true American so long as one woman is denied her birthright of life, liberty and happiness.
He knows that freedom to think and act, without withholding that right from any other, evolves humanity — Therefore he gives his best energy to inspiring men and women to think and to act, each for himself. He pleads for the rights of children, for so-called criminals, for the insane, the weak, and all those who having failed to be a friend to themselves, need friendship most. The Golden Rule is his rule of life.
His work is to emancipate American men and women from being slaves to useless customs, outgrown mental habits, outgrown religion, outgrown laws, outgrown superstitions. He would make each human being rely upon himself for health, wealth and happiness.

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers, P. 86.

Source: The Man Who Studied Yoga (1956), Ch. 5

Source: Better-World Philosophy: A Sociological Synthesis (1899), The Social Ideal, pp. 146–147

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 565.

“The more a person believes he’s free to think, the more I believe he’s a slave of his thoughts”