 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
 | Angus Jenkinson - 2003 - 292 pages
...spirit to become reality. As Ralph Waldo Emerson put it: 'A man should learn to detect and watch the gleam of light which flashes across his mind from...dismisses without notice his thought, because it is his.' The soul or psyche or mind (which for my purposes at the moment are interchangeable terms differing... | |
 | Keith J. Thomas - 2003 - 312 pages
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 | Stephen Young - 2003 - 248 pages
...Riesman's observations. 16 "Trust thyself," Emerson wrote, "every heart vibrates to that iron string." 17 "A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam...light which flashes across his mind from within..." "Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind." "Society everywhere is in conspiracy... | |
 | Stanley Cavell, David Justin Hodge - 2003 - 300 pages
...Nietzsche's Preface, and Emersonian echoes in their ideas of the lightning flash (in "Self- Reliance": "to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within"), of originality as pregnancy (in "Experience," among other allusions, there is "the crescive self"),... | |
 | Mary Jane Ryan - 2004 - 226 pages
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