To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men — that is genius. Essays - Page 43by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1895 - 270 pagesFull view - About this book
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 354 pages
...may. The sentiment they instil is of more value than any thought they may contain. To believe your nwp thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men, — that jg gfip'" 81 - Speak your latent conviction, and it shall be the universal sense ; for the inmost in... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 400 pages
...value than any thought they may contain. To believe your own thought, to believe that what is tnie for you in your private heart, is true for all men—...universal sense; for always the inmost becomes the outmost—and our first thought is rendered back to us by the trumpets of the Last Judgment. Familiar... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 384 pages
...may. The sentiment they instil is of more value than any thought they may contain. To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart, is true for all men,—that is genius. Speak your latent conviction and it shall be the universal sense; for always... | |
| 1849 - 538 pages
...Essay on " Self- Reliance " meets us next, and this is bolder still. " To believe your own thoughts, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men, — that is Genius." And happily this genius, we find, may be the lot of all, at least of every Emersonian : the fact is... | |
| 1849 - 1052 pages
...Essay on " Self-Reliance 1 " meets us next, and this is bolder still. " To believe your own thoughts. to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is HIM for all men,—that is Genius." And happily this genius, we find, may be the lot of all, at least... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1850 - 352 pages
...may. The sentiment they instil is of more value than any thought they may contain. To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you...conviction, and it shall be the universal sense ; for the inmost in due time becomes the outmost, — and our first thought is rendered back to us by the... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1850 - 356 pages
...may. The sentiment they instil is of more value than any thought they may contain. To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you...conviction, and it shall be the universal sense ; for the inmost in due time becomes the outmost, — and our first thought is rendered back to us by the... | |
| 1850 - 524 pages
...thus taught what is genius: — "To believe your own thought, to believe that which is true for yon in your private heart, is true for all men — that is genius." We believe that the history of certain human opinioas, which have been put-forth as the sincere convictioas... | |
| Fredrika Bremer - 1853 - 664 pages
...life. In his lecture on self-reliance, he says: * " To believe your own thought—to believe that which is true for you in your private heart is true for...back to us' by the trumpets of the last judgment. The highest merit which we ascribe to Moses, Plato, and Milton is that which every man recognizes as... | |
| Ralph Waldo [essays] Emerson - 1853 - 214 pages
...may. The sentiment they instil is of more value than any thought they may contain. To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you...conviction and it shall be the universal sense ; for the inmost becomes in due time the outmost, — and our first thought is rendered back to us by the... | |
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