 What have I to do with the sacredness of traditions, if I live wholly from within?" my friend suggested, — "But these impulses may be from below, not from above." I replied, "They do not seem to me to be such; but if I am the Devil's child. I will live...  Twelve essays [comprising Essays, 1st ser.]. - Page 42by Ralph Waldo [essays] Emerson - 1849Full view - About this book
 | John T. Lysaker - 2008 - 244 pages
...two lines from "Self-Reliance": "Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind"; and: "No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature" (CW2, 30). These are perhaps Emerson's most radical thoughts as far as the history of God is concerned.... | |
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