 | Frederick William Roe, George Roy Elliott - 1913 - 512 pages
...such; but if 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...thing were titular and ephemeral but he. I am ashamed to think how easily we capitulate to badges and names, to large societies and 5 dead institutions.... | |
 | 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...thing were titular and ephemeral but he. I am ashamed to think how easily we capitulate to badges and names, to large societies and 5 dead institutions.... | |
 | Maurice Garland Fulton - 1914 - 568 pages
...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...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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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"... | |
 | Thomas Kerth, George C. Schoolfield - 1996 - 334 pages
...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...my constitution; the only wrong what is against it. (SR 2:30) Emerson brushes aside the dualistic principles of below and above, of good and evil, God... | |
 | Sanford Budick - 1996 - 372 pages
...of 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...constitution; the only wrong what is against it." (The anticipation of Nietzsche's genealogy of morals is no accident.) Such a remark seems uniformly... | |
 | Anita Haya Patterson - 1997 - 268 pages
...legal and ordinary meanings is expressed in the simple act of punning. "No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names...my constitution, the only wrong what is against it" (Essays, 262). And: "As great a stake depends on your private act to-day, as followed their public... | |
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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. 
