 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1893 - 126 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...all opposition, as if everything were titular and ephemeral3 but he. I am ashamed to think how easily we capitulate to badges and names, to large societies... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1894 - 334 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...very readily transferable to that or this; the only light is what is after my constitution, the only wrong what is against it. A man is to carry himself... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1895 - 334 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...very readily transferable to that or this; the only light is what is after my constitution, the only wrong what is against it. A man is to carry himself... | |
 | University of Toronto - 1895 - 704 pages
...above." Emerson replied : " They do not seem to be such, but if I am the Devil's child, I will live from the Devil. No law can be sacred to me but that of my own nature." Thus Emerson is an iutuitionalist in contradistinction to Eousseau, Mill and other moral... | |
 | 1896 - 374 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...all opposition, as if everything were titular and ephemeral3 but he. I am ashamed to think how easily we capitulate to badges and names, to large societies... | |
 | John Burroughs - 1896 - 292 pages
...and knows that his will is higher and more excellent than all actual and all possible antagonists." "A man is to carry himself in the presence of all...if everything were titular and ephemeral but he." "Great works of art," he again says, "teach us to abide by our spontaneous impression with goodnatured... | |
 | 1896 - 234 pages
...that he will not violate his own constitution, which ordains that he shall act fully and freely. " The only right is what is after my constitution ; the only wrong what is against it." He must account to himself for everything, must absolve himself to himself. The law of his action is... | |
 | 1897 - 586 pages
...faith. " Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul ; unbelief in denying them. " " The only right is what is after my constitution ; the only wrong what is against it. " So said Emerson, and in the same strain Dr. Martineau : "If to rest on authority is to mean an acceptance... | |
 | 1898 - 462 pages
...can be sacred to me but that of iny nature. Good ann. bad are but munt» very readily trausferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my constitution, the only wrong what is against if. 415 tweeledig op : als zijn en als zóó-zijn. Dus is kwaad óf tegennatuurlijk of niet-zóo-zijn... | |
 | Samuel James Andrews - 1898 - 396 pages
...our own mind. What have I to do with the sacredness of traditions if I live wholly from within? ... No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. ... If I am the devil's child, I will then live from the devil. ... I shun father and mother, and wife... | |
| |
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. 
