 No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my constitution ; the only wrong, what is against it.  Twelve Essays - Page 43by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 261 pagesFull view - About this book
 | George Edward Woodberry - 1907 - 252 pages
...man obeys his constitution, he will be in the right. Here is Emerson's only sanction of morality ; " the only right is what is after my constitution, the only wrong what is against it." A man cannot violate his own nature, in any case ; but error lies in setting up - one part of it by itself.... | |
 | 1860 - 708 pages
...course, can be committed against him. The sole authority is man's own nature. " No law," he says, " can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names readily transferable to this or that ; the only right is what is after my constitution, the only wrong... | |
 | Theodore Parker - 1907 - 552 pages
...integrity of your own mind." " The virtue most in request is conformity. Self-reliance is its aversion." " No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature, the only wrong what is against it." " Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love." " Your goodness... | |
 | Theodore Parker - 1907 - 552 pages
...integrity of your own mind." " The virtue most in request is conformity. Self-reliance is its aversion." " No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature, the only wrong what is against it." " Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love." " Your goodness... | |
 | Theodore Parker - 1907 - 552 pages
...integrity of your own mind." " The virtue most in request is conformity. Self-reliance is its aversion." " No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature, the only wrong what is against it." " Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love." " Your goodness... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1908 - 324 pages
...above.' I replied, ' They do not seem to me to be such ; but if I am the Devil's child, I will live then from the Devil.' No law can be sacred to me but...carry himself in the presence of all opposition, as if everything were titular and ephemeral but he. I am ashamed to think how easily we capitulate to badges... | |
 | William Crary Brownell - 1909 - 572 pages
...me but that of my own nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to this or that; the only right is what is after my constitution, the only wrong what is against it." IV It would, indeed, be hardly too fanciful to find Emerson's philosophy very considerably derived... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1912 - 314 pages
...from above." I replied, "They do not seem to me to be such; but if I am the Devil's child, I will live then from the Devil." No law can be sacred to me but...wrong what is against it. A man is to carry himself in^the presenci of all opposition, as if every thing were titular and ephemera but he. I am ashamed... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1911 - 148 pages
...above." I replied, " They do not seem to me to be such ; but if I am the Devil's child, I will live then from the Devil." No law can be sacred to me but that of ic my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this ; the only right... | |
 | 1904 - 1036 pages
...integrity of your own mind. Absolve you to yourself and you shall have the suffrage of the world. ... A man is to carry himself, in the presence of all opposition, as if everything were titular and ephemeral but him. I am ashamed to think how easily we capitulate to badges... | |
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