 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...  Essays - Page 41by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 333 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 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... | |
 | Thomas J. Scheff - 1990 - 231 pages
...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...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,... | |
 | Stanley Cavell - 1992 - 178 pages
...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 always the inmost becomes the outmost" ("Self-Reliance"). The substantive disagreement with Heidegger,... | |
 | Kevin P. Van Anglen - 1993 - 280 pages
...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 of the Last Judgement. Familiar... | |
 | Thomas J. Scheff - 1990 - 231 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Russell B. Goodman - 1995 - 332 pages
...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 always the inmost becomes the outmost" ("Self-Reliance"). The substantive disagreement with Heidegger,... | |
 | 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...rendered back to us by the trumpets of the Last Judgment" Essays, 259). The curious enfolding of the vocabulary of the public into the private that takes place... | |
 | Thomas B. McMullen, Jr - 1998 - 324 pages
...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 Milton is that they set at naught books and traditions, and spoke not what men but... | |
 | Charles B. Guignon - 1999 - 350 pages
...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...the mind is to each, the highest merit we ascribe to Moses, Plato and Milton is that they set at naught books and traditions, and spoke not what men, but... | |
 | Richard D. McGhee - 1999 - 406 pages
...believe that what is true to 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." Emerson provided the text for understanding the character of John Wayne's romantic heroes, including... | |
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