 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
 | Thomas J. Scheff - 1990 - 231 pages
...conviction, and it shall be the universal sense; for the inmost in due time becomes the outmost, and our^rm thought is rendered back to us by the trumpets of the Last Judgment. [2] A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within,... | |
 | Russell B. Goodman - 1995 - 332 pages
...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...sense; for always the inmost becomes the outmost" ("Self-Reliance"). The substantive disagreement with Heidegger, shared by Emerson and Thoreau, is that... | |
 | Martin Klammer - 1995 - 200 pages
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 | Anita Haya Patterson - 1997 - 268 pages
...because of this striking and inexplicable but inevitable convergence of public and private. He writes, "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... | |
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