 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
 | 1896 - 374 pages
...may. The sentiment they instill is of more value than any thought they may contain. To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you...latent conviction, and it shall be the universal sense ;1 for the inmost in due time becomes the outmost, — and our first thought is rendered back to us... | |
 | John Burroughs - 1896 - 292 pages
...had not he preached the adamantine doctrine of selftrust? "To believe your own thought," he says, " to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true of all men, — that is genius." In many ways was Whitman, quite unconsciously to himself, the man... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1899 - 380 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 trumpets... | |
 | 1899 - 820 pages
...without. The inmost and the outmost cannot be long separated. As Emerson says, "The inmost in due time becomes the outmost, and our first thought is rendered...back to us by the trumpets of the last judgment." At length there must be exact correlation between the subjective and objective, between the spirit... | |
 | 1899 - 704 pages
...tongue ; look like the innocent flower, / ut be the serpent under *t- Л/лгЛ., i. 5. 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. Emerson, To blow is not to play the flute ; you must move the fingers as well.... | |
 | Second Church (Boston, Mass.) - 1900 - 264 pages
...him mere Sunday-school morality. I turned to him, and opened on this passage : — " 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 trumpets... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1901 - 554 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... | |
 | Israel C. McNeill, Samuel Adams Lynch - 1901 - 398 pages
...may. The sentiment they instill is of more value than any thought they may contain. 5 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 iirst thought is 10 rendered back to us by the... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1902 - 206 pages
...The sentiment they instil is of more value than any thought they may contain. To believe your ownl thought, to believe that what is true for you! • in your private heart is true for all men, — I that is genius. Speak your latent conviction, and it shall be the universal sense; for the utmost... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1902 - 66 pages
...may. The sentiment they instill is of more value than any thought they may contain. To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you...your private heart, is true for all men, — that is genius.-Speak your latent conviction and it shall be the universal sense ; for always the inmost becomes... | |
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