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
| Kevin P. Van Anglen - 1993 - 280 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; for the inmost in due time becomes the outmost,—and our first thought is rendered back to us by the trumpets... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| Thomas B. McMullen, Jr - 1998 - 324 pages
...Belongs to You "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. ... Familiar as the voice of the mind is to each, the highest merit we ascribe to Moses, Plato, and... | |
| Allen J. Scott, Edward W. Soja - 1996 - 500 pages
...Protestant virtue: "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."7 The rise of evangelical Christianity in various forms, including Mormonism, may be seen as... | |
| Charles B. Guignon - 1999 - 350 pages
...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...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... | |
| James M. Jasper - 2009 - 276 pages
...romanticism. "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... | |
| James M. Jasper - 2000 - 330 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 the Last Judgment." Then, "Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string." And later: "No law can be sacred to... | |
| David Ross Williams - 2000 - 224 pages
...Emerson at least had the right approach: "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." Therefore, Sin Boldly! Stand fast in the liberty of the spirit and be not entangled again in the yoke... | |
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