 A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we...  The American Scholar: Self-reliance. Compensation - Page 44by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1893 - 108 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1911 - 196 pages
...those facts through, and to make them known. Representative Men. IN every work of genius we recognise our own rejected thoughts: they come back to us with...teach us to abide by our spontaneous impression with good-humoured inflexibility then most when the whole cry of voices is on the other side. Else, to-morrow... | |
 | 1911 - 796 pages
...that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his thought because it is his. Great works of art have no more affecting lesson than this." This is one of the curious things in the... | |
 | Charles B. Guignon - 1999 - 350 pages
...that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice...spontaneous impression with good-humored inflexibility then most when the whole cry of voices is on the other side. Else to-morrow a stranger will say with masterly... | |
 | James A. Boon - 1999 - 388 pages
...human, beginning from a famous early sentence of "Self-Reliance" I have already had occasion to cite: "In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected...come back to us with a certain alienated majesty." The idea of a majesty alienated from us is a transcription of the idea of the sublime as Kant characterizes... | |
 | Martin Edmond - 1999 - 286 pages
...and uncompromising, we have to look if we want to see. <u 3 H In every work of genius we recognise our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty. Ralph Waldo Emerson 8 Not long after I began researching this subject, I had a dream in which the body... | |
 | Diane Ravitch - 2000 - 662 pages
...that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice...spontaneous impression with good-humored inflexibility then most when the whole cry of voices is on the other side. Else to-morrow a stranger will say with masterly... | |
 | Marlies Kronegger, Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka - 2000 - 342 pages
...and God: "It takes me by surprise and yet is not unknown" (3); or, as he writes in "SelfReliance": "In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected...art have no more affecting lesson for us than this" (138). Because good art for Emerson is about revealing a natural fact or truth, when we experience... | |
 | Jon Fripp, Michael Fripp, Deborah Fripp - 2000 - 262 pages
...just to realize the extent of your own ignorance. — Thomas Soweit, 1999 Quoted in Readers Digest In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected...come back to us with a certain alienated majesty. — Ralph Waldo Emerson We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming. — Wernher... | |
 | Steven Johnson Leyba - 2001 - 162 pages
...the questioners? The American Revolutionaries? "In every work of genius we recognize our own refected thoughts: they come back to us with a certain alienated...teach us to abide by our spontaneous impression with good -humored inflexibility/' - Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance POPPY: You've been the subject of... | |
 | Richard Schacht - 2001 - 292 pages
...has some sort of genius. True virtue is genius.62 Early in his essay "Self-Reliance" Emerson writes, "In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected...come back to us with a certain alienated majesty" (Essays and Lectures, p. 259). Such writing enacts the very phenomenon it describes. The burden of... | |
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