 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
 | Astrid Fitzgerald - 2001 - 390 pages
...Hasidic Sayings 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...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... | |
 | David LaRocca - 2003 - 122 pages
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 | Alan Jacobs - 2009 - 197 pages
...into copies of oneself. The great prophet of this dark Quixotism is not so much Nietzsche as Emerson: "Speak your latent conviction, and it shall be the universal sense; for the utmost in due time becomes the outmost,—and our first thought is rendered back to us by the trumpets... | |
 | Stanley Cavell, David Justin Hodge - 2003 - 300 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...universal sense; for always the inmost becomes the outmost."14 The substantive disagreement with Heidegger, shared by Emerson and Thoreau, is that the... | |
 | Berys Gaut, Paisley Livingston - 2003 - 312 pages
...stating that "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...conviction, and it shall be the universal sense; for the inmost in due time becomes the outmost."25 And, in a later essay, Emerson states his view of genius... | |
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...his essays: 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...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... | |
 | David Harris - 2000 - 664 pages
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