 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 my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after...  The American Scholar,: Self-reliance, Compensation, - Page 53by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1911 - 132 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 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 and names, to large societies... | |
 | Frederick William Roe, George Roy Elliott - 1913 - 512 pages
...I am 35 the devil's child, I will live then from the devil." No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily...carry himself in the presence of all opposition as if every thing were titular and ephemeral but he. I am ashamed to think how easily we capitulate to badges... | |
 | Frederick William Roe, George Roy Elliott - 1913 - 512 pages
...impulses may be from below, not from above." I replied, " They do not seem to me to be such; but if I am the only right is what is after my constitution; the...carry himself in the presence of all opposition as if every thing were titular and ephemeral but he. I am ashamed to think how easily we capitulate to badges... | |
 | Maurice Garland Fulton - 1914 - 556 pages
...if I am .the devil's child, I will live then from the devil." No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily...of all opposition as if everything were titular and ephemeral but he. I am ashamed to think how easily we capitulate to badges and names, to large societies... | |
 | E. Michael Jones - 1994 - 214 pages
...Whitman responded by quoting "Self-Reliance" back at Emerson: "No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily...constitution; the only wrong what is against it." Both Nietzsche and Wagner came from the birthplace of Lutheranism; both repudiated their background.... | |
 | Daniel Hoffman - 1994 - 396 pages
.... . Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist. ... No law can be sacred to me but that of my own nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable...my constitution, the only wrong what is against it. The evening's lecture was 'Self-Reliance'; the lecturer, an accomplished impersonator who, on other... | |
 | Benita von Heynitz - 1994 - 252 pages
...to me but that of my own nature. Good and bad are names very readily transferable to this or that; the only right is what is after my constitution, the only wrong what is against U... (30) What I do, is all that concerns me, not what the people think... The objection to conforming... | |
 | Philip Koch - 1994 - 400 pages
...should be ignored: Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members. The only right is what is after my constitution; the only wrong what is against it.35 Constitution reveals itself in intuition, the inner voice of one's genius; these intuitions may... | |
 | Wilfred M. McClay - 1994 - 386 pages
...is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. . . . 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. ... A man is to carry himself in the presence of all opposition as if every thing were titular and... | |
 | William M. Shea, Peter A. Huff - 2003 - 378 pages
...and freedom. But the next sentence of "Self-Reliance" takes another step: "Good and bad are but names readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my constitution; the only wrong that is against it." (The anticipation of Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morals is no accident.) "My constitution"... | |
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