 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
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...are those who consider self-reliance too subjective as the basis of authority, but as Emerson says, "no law can be sacred to me but that of my nature." For good or ill, we have only ourselves to go by, our own sense of right and wrong. People tend to... | |
 | John Gibson, Wolfgang Huemer - 2004 - 376 pages
...On my saying, "What have I to do with the sacredness of traditions, if I live wholly from within?" my friend suggested, - "But these impulses may be...the Devil's child, I will live then from the Devil." VIII (a) My account will be hard to follow: because it says something new but still has egg-shells... | |
 | Carl J. Richard - 2004 - 396 pages
..."innocence." He retorted to those who said that the impulses of his intuition might be the voice of the devil, "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 added, "I like the silent church before the service begins better than any preaching." Intuition... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2004 - 396 pages
...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."...replied, "They do not seem to me to be such; but if 1 am the Devil's child, I will live then from the Devil." No law can be sacred to me but that of my... | |
 | Charles B. Guignon - 2004 - 212 pages
...Emerson, who in "Self-Reliance" wrote: "Nothing is 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 transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my constitution, the only wrong what... | |
 | Charles B. Guignon - 2004 - 204 pages
...Emerson, who in "Self-Reliance" wrote: "Nothing is 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 transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my constitution, the only wrong what... | |
 | Barry Hankins - 2004 - 240 pages
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