 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
 | Stephen French Whitman - 1913 - 514 pages
...Emerson said about that? ' What have I to do with the sacredness of traditions, if I live from within? No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature.' And he was right. To be an individual, one must live his own life. "We don't all find our best satisfaction... | |
 | Maurice Garland Fulton - 1914 - 556 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... | |
 | Washington University (Saint Louis, Mo.) - 1921 - 492 pages
...Even'into the field of ethics Montaigne and Emerson carried their scepticism and their individualism. ' ' Good and bad are but names very readily transferable...to that or this; the only right is what is after my own constitution; the only wrong, what is against it, ' ' M wrote Emerson, echoing Montaigne 's sentiment... | |
 | Mary Edwards Calhoun, Emma Leonora MacAlarney - 1915 - 670 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... | |
 | Paul Seydor - 1999 - 442 pages
...bad, it is bad.x Which brings us full circle to the Emerson who advised men to trust their instincts: "the only right is what is after my constitution; the only wrong what is against it." Women come to be identified, at least in the form of wife and mother, or, more generally, family, as... | |
 | David Lyle Jeffrey, Dominic Manganiello - 1998 - 150 pages
...Kant's transcendent ego, "Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of our own mind." Accordingly, "No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature....constitution; the only wrong what is against it." 15. The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde, ed. GF Maine (London, 1954), 962. 16. This impulse is clearly... | |
 | E. Miller Budick - 1998 - 268 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...readily transferable to that or this; the only right is after my constitution; the only wrong what is against it. ... If malice and vanity wear the coat of... | |
 | Jeannette Marie Mageo - 1998 - 316 pages
...Emerson equates virtue with self-reliance, which turns out to be a moral valorization of egocentrism: The only right is what is after my constitution, the...carry himself in the presence of all opposition, as if everything were titular and ephemeral but he. (1882:29)15 Inasmuch as right is equated with the highlighted... | |
 | Gustaaf Van Cromphout - 1999 - 196 pages
...have found Emerson, at one and the same time, too empirical in his derivation of what is morally right ("No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. . . . the only right is what is after my constitution, the only wrong what is against it" — CW 2:30)... | |
 | Oscar Wilde - 1999 - 260 pages
...one of my plays: ¡BE: see SL 128-9. 7 1 : scies: boring sayings . 73: own nature: see Emerson SR 30: 'No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature.' about me: see SL 177-8 n. sold: the contents of 16 Tite Street, including all Wilde's books and papers,... | |
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