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 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 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 this; the only right is what is after my constitution, the only wrong what is against it. A man is to carry himself in the presence of all opposition as if everything were titular and ephemeral but he. I am ashamed to think how easily we capitulate to badges and names, to large societies and dead institutions. Every decent and well-spoken individual affects and sways me more than is right. I ought to go upright and vital, and speak the rude truth in all ways. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike.
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Oscar Wilde
The point of modernity is to live a life without illusions while not becoming disillusioned
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Antonio Gramsci
A man must not be without shame, for the shame of being without shame is shamelessness indeed.
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Mencius
Dove la moralità è troppo forte l'intelletto perisce.
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Friedrich Nietzsche
My father once told me that respect for truth comes close to being the basis for all morality. 'Something cannot emerge from nothing, ' he said. This is profound thinking if you understand how unstable 'the truth' can be.
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Frank Herbert
More Quotes By Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love, and you shall be loved.
He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.
The Artist always has the masters in his eyes.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
