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" 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 47
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876
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The American Scholar,: Self-reliance, Compensation,

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1911 - 148 pages
...On my saying, 5 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." No law can be sacred to me but that of ic my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this ; the only right...
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English Prose: A Series of Related Essays for the Discussion and Practice of ...

Frederick William Roe, George Roy Elliott - 1913 - 512 pages
...church. 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...They do not seem to me to be such; but if I am the only right is what is after my constitution; the only wrong what is against it. A man is to carry himself...
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English Prose: A Series of Related Essays for the Discussion and Practice of ...

Frederick William Roe, George Roy Elliott - 1913 - 512 pages
...church. 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...replied, " They do not seem to me to be 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....
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The Isle of Life: A Romance

Stephen French Whitman - 1913 - 514 pages
...Emerson said about that? ' What have I to do with the sacredness of traditions, if I live from within? No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature.' And he was right. To be an individual, one must live his own life. "We don't all find our best satisfaction...
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Emerson's Essays on Manners, Self-reliance, Compensation, Nature, Friendship

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1915 - 200 pages
...church. 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..."They do not seem to me to be such; but if I am the 20 devil's child, I will live then from the devil." No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature....
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An American Bible

Alice Hubbard - 1918 - 382 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 from...the Devil's child, I will live then from the Devil." <I No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature s* <I Good and bad are but names very readily transferable...
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Mental Evolution

Ulysses Grant King - 1921 - 302 pages
...if I live wholly from within?' my friend suggested, — 'But these impulses may be from below, and not from above.' I replied, 'They do not seem to me...sacred to me, but that of my nature. Good and bad are names very readily transferable to that or this, — the only right is what is after my constitution;...
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Select Essays and Addresses, Including The American Scholar

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1922 - 314 pages
...church. 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...replied, " They do not seem to me to be such ; but if 1 »" the Devil's child, I will live then from the Devil." No law can be sacred to me but that of my...
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The Literary Digest International Book Review, Volume 3

Clifford Smyth - 1925 - 850 pages
...but must explore if it be goodness. Nothinc is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. ... No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature." Emerson's writings are strewn with pregnant sentences like these, sentences full of enthusiasm, of...
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André Gide et l'âme moderne

Sybrandi Braak - 1923 - 224 pages
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