...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...

...for intellectual as well as political independence from the creeds and cultures of the European past. "A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam...than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages," he said, and his call for self-reliance became a marching banner for seekers of a truly American expression...

...more watchfully to what it is we are conscious of and altering our posture toward it. For example: "A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam...bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his own thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they...

...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...

...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...

...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,...

...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...

...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...

...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,...

...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...