 What have I to do with the sacredness of traditions, if I live wholly from within?" my friend suggested, — "But these impulses may be from below, not from above." I replied, "They do not seem to me to be such; but if I am the Devil's child. I will live...  Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson - Page 47by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876Full view - About this book
 | Darrel Abel - 2002 - 538 pages
..."Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string." "If I am the devil's child, I will then live from the devil. No law can be sacred to me but that of my own nature." "The nonchalance of boys who are sure of a dinner ... is the healthy attitude of human... | |
 | Wayne W. Dyer - 2009 - 292 pages
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 | Richard Alan Krieger - 2007 - 344 pages
...Junius "The good need fear no law; it is their safety, and the bad man's awe." — Philip Massinger "No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature." — Emerson "The reason of the law is the law." — Sir Walter Scott "Good laws make it easier to do... | |
 | Robert Roper - 2003 - 348 pages
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 | Stanley Cavell, David Justin Hodge - 2003 - 300 pages
...that his inner impulses may be from below, not from above, and remembered being prompted to reply: "They do not seem to me to be such; but if I am the...Devil's child, I will live then from the Devil.") He hopes it is somewhat better than whim at last — for as with prophecy you can only know the true... | |
 | Stephen Young - 2003 - 248 pages
...I to do with the sacredness of tradition, if I live wholly from within? My friend suggested—'But these impulses may be from below, not from above.' I replied, 'They do not seem to be to be such; but if I am the Devil's child, I will live then from the Devil.'" 24 If Emerson was... | |
 | Richard Poirier - 2003 - 334 pages
...Lost, which induced Blake to say that Milton was of the Devil's party and Emerson to say, after Blake: "If I am the Devil's child I will live then from the Devil"; it can be heard more genially in the verbal duels of Hotspur and Glendower in Henry IV, Part One, in... | |
 | Lawrence Buell - 2004 - 420 pages
...festival of the earth and a foretaste of the Superman. (Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra, part i) "If I am the Devil's child, I will live then from the Devil." (Emerson, "Self-Reliance," W 2: 30) I whisper this advice in the ear of him possessed of a devil: "Better... | |
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