 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
 | Dan P. McAdams - 2005 - 402 pages
...nonchalance of boys who are sure of a dinner" — and the most noble achievements of the mature adult.35 "A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam...light which flashes across his mind from within," he writes, "more than the luster of the firmament of bards and sages."36 In other words, intuition... | |
 | Aliki Barnstone - 2006 - 220 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. (Complete Writings 138) Emerson believed that a pure light could be "detected" from "within" the soul.... | |
 | Philipp Mehne - 2008 - 234 pages
...Judgment." (CW 2, 27). Selbstkultur bedeutet in dieser Hinsicht Kultivierung der eigenen Intuition: „A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam...than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages." Allerdings wird im Lauf des Textes in einem subtilen Perspektivwechsel vom Individuum zur Gemeinschaft... | |
 | Ishay Landa - 2007 - 340 pages
...your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart, is true for all men. ... A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam...more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages.'10 But it would be a mistake to assume that Emerson's praise of individual freedom was merely... | |
 | Philip F. Gura - 2007 - 406 pages
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 | Sujata Gurudev - 2006 - 156 pages
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 | Craig Kuhn - 2007 - 266 pages
...anyone not speaking the words of Jesus. CHAPTER TWELVE I'm right... No, I'm Right. How Do You Tell? "A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam...of light which flashes across his mind from within, " —Emerson "All a man's ways seem right to him, but the Lord weighs the heart" —Proverbs 21:2 he... | |
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