After being told by a friend that his impulse to defy tradition "may be from below," this man replied "if I am the Devil's child, I will live then from the Devil."
After being told by a friend that his impulse to defy tradition "may be from below," this man replied "if I am the Devil's child, I will live then from the Devil." This man argued that both abstractionist and materialist traits were possessed by another thinker who spent his whole life wondering "What do I know?" He urged people to become "Man Thinking" in a work heralded as an "intellectual Declaration of Independence." This author who described Montaigne as a "Representative Man" also delivered a speech to the Phi Beta Kappa Society and penned the maxims "Whoso must be a man, must be a (*) nonconformist" and "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." For 10 points, name this thinker who delivered "The American Scholar" and wrote "Self-Reliance."
After being told by a friend that his impulse to defy tradition "may be from below," this man replied "if I am the Devil's child, I will live then from the Devil."
Ralph Waldo Emerson