 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
 | Sanford Budick - 1996 - 372 pages
...the nation's constitution; or I have come to say, as amending our constitution. When he says there, "No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature," he is saying no more than Kant had said — that, in a phrase from "Fate," "we are law-givers," namely... | |
 | Jack Nichols - 1996 - 244 pages
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 | Linda C. Cahir - 1999 - 184 pages
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 | Thomas L. Dumm - 1999 - 232 pages
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 | Joel Porte (ed), Saundra Morris - 1999 - 304 pages
...not be in town the next week to meet preachers or deacons or faithful parishioners in the streets. "No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature," he could say on the platform, knowing full well that it would have been another thing altogether to... | |
 | Oscar Wilde - 1999 - 260 pages
...one of my plays: ¡BE: see SL 128-9. 7 1 : scies: boring sayings . 73: own nature: see Emerson SR 30: 'No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature.' about me: see SL 177-8 n. sold: the contents of 16 Tite Street, including all Wilde's books and papers,... | |
 | Linda C. Cahir - 1999 - 180 pages
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 | Gustaaf Van Cromphout - 1999 - 196 pages
...have found Emerson, at one and the same time, too empirical in his derivation of what is morally right ("No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. . . . the only right is what is after my constitution, the only wrong what is against it" — CW 2:30)... | |
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