האם Ralph Waldo Emerson באמת אמר «Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.»?

האם Ralph Waldo Emerson באמת אמר «Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.»?

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… e a man must be a nonconformist.[165] He who would gather immortal palms must not be hindered by the name of goodness, but must explore if it be goodness.[166] Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. Absolve you to yourself, and you shall have the suffrage[167] of the world. I remember an answer which when quite young I was prompted to make to a valued adviser, who was wont to importune me with the dear old doctrines of the 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 from below, not from above." I replied: "They do not seem to me to be such; b …
Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson — Ralph Waldo Emerson, ¶189 · Public domain (US), Project Gutenberg #16643 · מקור

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