 No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this ; the only right is what is after my constitution, the only wrong what is against it.  The Monthly magazine - Página 485por Monthly literary register - 1841Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Wilfred M. McClay - 1994 - 386 páginas
...me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this. ... A man is to carry himself in the presence of all opposition...capitulate to badges and names, to large societies and dead institutions.41 Small wonder that Emerson's admiring readers would include the young Friedrich Nietzsche.42... | |
 | Daniel Hoffman - 1994 - 396 páginas
...me but that of my own nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my constitution, the only wrong what is against it. The evening's lecture was 'Self-Reliance'; the lecturer, an accomplished impersonator who, on other... | |
 | E. Michael Jones - 1994 - 214 páginas
...to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my constitution; the only wrong what is against it." Both Nietzsche and Wagner came from the birthplace of Lutheranism; both repudiated their background.... | |
 | Benita von Heynitz - 1994 - 252 páginas
...to me but that of my own nature. Good and bad are names very readily transferable to this or that; the only right is what is after my constitution, the only wrong what is against U... (30) What I do, is all that concerns me, not what the people think... The objection to conforming... | |
 | Philip Koch - 1994 - 400 páginas
...should be ignored: Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members. The only right is what is after my constitution; the only wrong what is against it.35 Constitution reveals itself in intuition, the inner voice of one's genius; these intuitions may... | |
 | William M. Shea, Peter A. Huff - 2003 - 378 páginas
..."Self-Reliance" takes another step: "Good and bad are but names readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my constitution; the only wrong that is against it." (The anticipation of Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morals is no accident.) "My constitution"... | |
 | Bob Pepperman Taylor - 1996 - 200 páginas
...therefore, your own world."3 It is also a message of "Self-Reliance," where Emerson scolds us, saying, "I am ashamed to think how easily we capitulate to badges and names, to large societies and dead institutions."4 The freedom Emerson seeks is a freedom beyond history because in his view history gives... | |
 | Sanford Budick - 1996 - 372 páginas
..."Self-Reliance" takes another step: "Good and bad are but names readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my constitution; the only wrong what is against it." (The anticipation of Nietzsche's genealogy of morals is no accident.) Such a remark seems uniformly... | |
 | Thomas Kerth, George C. Schoolfield - 1996 - 334 páginas
...to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my constitution; the only wrong what is against it. (SR 2:30) Emerson brushes aside the dualistic principles of below and above, of good and evil, God... | |
 | Paul Seydor - 1999 - 442 páginas
...bad, it is bad.x Which brings us full circle to the Emerson who advised men to trust their instincts: "the only right is what is after my constitution; the only wrong what is against it." Women come to be identified, at least in the form of wife and mother, or, more generally, family, as... | |
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