 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
 | Andrew J Davis - 1996 - 412 pages
...saint, all things are friendly and sacred, all events profitable, all days holy, all men divine. 2 A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam...flashes across his mind from within, more than the luster of the firmament of bards and sages. 3 We lie in the lap of immense intelligence, which makes... | |
 | Daryl Bernstein, Joe Hammond - 1996 - 228 pages
...your city, your industry, or in society as a whole. Follow Your Instincts Ralph Waldo Emerson said, "A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam...of light which flashes across his mind from within. Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize... | |
 | Suzanne R. Kirschner - 1996 - 260 pages
...transform the religion of the inner light into a literal worship of the self, with his exhortation that "a man should learn to detect and watch that gleam...of light which flashes across his mind from within . . . Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind." Correspondingly, he asserted,... | |
 | Paul Jay - 1997 - 236 pages
...Plato, and Milton is, that they set at naught books and traditions, and spoke not what men but what they thought. A man should learn to detect and watch that...than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages" (259). Emerson's position here recalls the familiar conceptual division between inner and outer ("books... | |
 | Jay Parini - 1997 - 300 pages
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 | Thomas B. McMullen, Jr - 1998 - 324 pages
...Plato, and Milton is that they set at naught books and traditions, and spoke not what men but what they thought. A man should learn to detect and watch that...dismisses without notice his thought, because it is his." °*• Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essay on Self Reliance Where Is TOC Headed? Any Important and Complicated... | |
 | Thomas B. McMullen, Jr - 1998 - 324 pages
...Plato, and Milton is that they set at naught books and traditions, and spoke not what men but what they thought. A man should learn to detect and watch that...more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages.l Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it is his." «*• Ralph Waldo Emerson,... | |
 | Stephen Mulhall - 1994 - 386 pages
...or in which she was uninterested. Cavell sees the latter point as captured in Emerson's claim that 'In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come hack to us with a certain alienated majesty'; and he sees the former as emhodied in Emerson's related... | |
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