 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 the inmost in due time becomes the outmost, and our...  Twelve Essays - Page 38by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 261 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Barbara MacKinnon - 1985 - 710 pages
...genius. Speak your latent 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 trumpets of Last Judgment. Familiar as the voice of the mind is to each, the highest merit we ascribe to Moses,... | |
 | P. H. Porosky - 1986 - 368 pages
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 | David Ross Williams - 1987 - 306 pages
...by Emerson: "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." And I have tried to live up to George Bancroft's advice to his fellow historian Jared Sparks: "Do not... | |
 | Usha Bande - 1988 - 200 pages
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 | Edwin Harrison Cady, Louis J. Budd - 1988 - 300 pages
...of his own convictions, for he had long held that our first and third thoughts coincide, 48 and that "our first thought is rendered back to us by the trumpets of the Last Judgment." 49 We lie [he wrote] in the lap of immense intelligence, which makes us receivers of its truth and... | |
 | David Jacobson - 2010 - 221 pages
...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" (CW 2:27). These sentences describe a hyperbolic conception of freedom, freedom conceived as the immediate... | |
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