 | Ralph C. Wood - 2003 - 226 pages
...choices he or she makes but the capacity for choice itself." 18 Emerson sang this hymn in "SelfReliance": "To believe your own thought, to believe that what...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... | |
 | 156 pages
...but more like and not less like other men." This is why Emerson insists, as in "Self-Reliance," that "to believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you is true for all men, — that is genius." Contrary to what many of his critics have believed, self-reliance... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2004 - 256 pages
...subject be what it may. The sentiment they instil is of more value than any thought they may contain. To believe your own thought, to believe that what...rendered back to us by the trumpets of the Last Judgment. Familiar as the voice of the mind is to each, the highest merit we ascribe to Moses. Plato and Milton... | |
 | W. Ross Winterowd - 2004 - 200 pages
...leads to what is perhaps Emerson's most telling and widely quoted statement (from "Self-Reliance"): To believe your own thought, to believe that what...rendered back to us by the trumpets of the last judgment. Familiar as the voice of the mind is to each, the highest merit we ascribe to Moses, Plato and Milton... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2004 - 284 pages
...subject be what it may. The sentiment they instil is of more value than any thought they may contain. To believe your own thought, to believe that what...conviction, and it shall be the universal sense: for the imnost in due time becomes the outmost, and our first thought is rendered back to us by the trumpets... | |
 | Carl J. Richard - 2004 - 396 pages
..."geniuses," though they differed from others only in daring to follow their intuition. Emerson wrote: "To believe your own thought, to believe that what...private heart is true for all men — that is genius. . . . Imitation is suicide." Children were superior to adults because they were the ultimate nonconformists;... | |
 | Roger V. Bell - 2004 - 618 pages
...returning words to language, as if making them common to us, ... the fourth sentence of 'Self-Reliance': 'To believe your own thought, to believe that what...private heart is true for all men, — that is genius'" (QO, 1 14). This version of the romantic's genius is "the promise that the private and the social will... | |
 | Russell B. Goodman - 2005 - 398 pages
...as the one and indispensable belief necessary to moral and social life."6 Compare this with Emerson: "To believe your own thought, to believe that what...private heart is true for all men — that is genius." Emerson expresses what he calls the ground of his hope that man is one, that we are capable of achieving... | |
 | Maggie Craddock - 2010 - 240 pages
...people saw was a young woman who was quoted in the financial headlines, spoke frequently at national Mil To believe your own thought, to believe that what...private heart is true for all men — that is genius. — Ralph Waldo Emerson investment conferences, and had been profiled on a special segment of CNBC.... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2004 - 396 pages
...to concentrate? Do you await "the news conceming the structure of the world"? What does it tell you? To believe your own thought, to believe that what...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... | |
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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. 
