 | Trish MacGregor, T. J. MacGregor - 2002 - 324 pages
...leads you to the grail — a creative life. PART ONE CJun (Jians ana L/reative Jnemes To helieve your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true (or all men — that is genius. — Ralph \\'iildo Emerson ^/istroloqu ana -jour ^irfisfic JDluebrint... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 156 pages
...understand what Emerson says in the opening paragraph of the most famous of his essays: 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... | |
 | Berys Gaut, Paisley Livingston - 2003 - 312 pages
...universal acceptability of his ideas. Thus, Emerson begins the same essay by stating that "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."25 And, in a later essay, Emerson states his view of genius... | |
 | Stanley Cavell, David Justin Hodge - 2003 - 300 pages
...urgent rhetoric, some of the most famous. In the opening paragraph of "Self-Reliance": "To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you...private heart is true for all men, — that is genius." "In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain... | |
 | Laura Dassow Walls - 2003 - 302 pages
...is a turn outward is, of course, repeated in the famous line from "Self-Reliance": "To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you...private heart, is true for all men, — that is genius"; CW 2:27. 48. CW 2:173-75. 49. CW 2:161. 50. EL 2: 355. The concept of the "modern" here is derived... | |
 | Jay Grossman - 2003 - 292 pages
...Boston suppression of Leaves on largely these same corporeal grounds. 7 For example: "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" ("Self-Reliance," LAE 259). 8 Apparently Greeley had a tendency to act this... | |
 | Ralph C. Wood - 2003 - 226 pages
...but the capacity for choice itself." 18 Emerson sang this hymn in "SelfReliance": "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." Yet Whitman was its true bard: "The whole theory of the universe is directed... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2004 - 256 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... | |
 | W. Ross Winterowd - 2004 - 200 pages
...perhaps Emerson's most telling and widely quoted statement (from "Self-Reliance"): 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... | |
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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. 
