 They do not seem to me to 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 very readily transferable to that or [his; the only right is what is after...  The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson - Page 247by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870Full view - About this book
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | John Gibson, Wolfgang Huemer - 2004 - 372 pages
...wholly from within?" my friend suggested, - "But these impulses may be from below, not from ahove." I replied, "They do not seem to me to be such; but...the Devil's child, I will live then from the Devil." VIII (a) My arcount 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 - 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Peggy Rosenthal - 2005 - 320 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...No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. A Renaissance character might have made such a blasphemous self-assertion, setting his own sacredness... | |
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