 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 what thev thought. A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of...  The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson - Page 245by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870Full view - About this book
 | Usha Bande - 1988 - 200 pages
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 | William Safire, Leonard Safir - 1990 - 436 pages
...true for you in your heart is true for all men, — that is genius. ... A man should Intuition 199 learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which...than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. — Ralph Waldo Emerson . . . there is no prescribed route to follow to arrive at a new idea. You have... | |
 | Russell B. Goodman - 1990 - 182 pages
...of truth requires the special epistemological attitude that Emerson sees in his selfreliant heroes: "A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam...than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages." But there is a darker, even tragic side to the claim that truth comes only by surprise: We cannot be... | |
 | Thomas J. Scheff - 1990 - 231 pages
...the outmost, and our first thought is rendered back to us by the trumpets of the Last Judgment. [2] A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam...than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. [3] Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize... | |
 | Ihab Hassan - 1990 - 256 pages
...of its seekers. Certainly the latter exhibit an independent attitude. Emerson put it more forcibly: "A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam...than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. . . . I shun father and mother and wife and brother when my genius calls me. I would write on the lintels... | |
 | Richard Whelan - 1991 - 212 pages
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 | Lillian Back - 1993 - 500 pages
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