...believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men, — that is genius... 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.... "There is a time in every man's education when he arrives...

...it's your time to make your move? Look for a flash of light, a moment of clarity, a glow of feeling. "A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam...light which flashes across his mind from within," wrote Ralph Waldo Emerson in his landmark essay "Self-Reliance." Reject that gleam, either out of insecurity...

...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...

...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...

...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"),...

...men (Moses, Plato, Milton) "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." Influence was the hobgoblin of Emerson's mind. The one thing not to be forgiven to intellectual persons...

...Porte, Saundra Morris [Hg.], WW Norton & Company, Inc. New York, London 2001, 95. 197 Vgl. hierzu: „A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam...than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. [...] The relations ofthe soul to the divine spirit are so pure, that it is profane to seek to interpose...

...only mentioned casually in passing. Perhaps the most fundamental basis of his thought is found in (2): "A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam...than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages." The key word is "flashes." In the context of the sentence, he seems to be suggesting that the flashes...

...Dewey's Construction and Criticism, dating from 1929: As Emerson says in his essay on "Self-Reliance": "A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam...of light which flashes across his mind from within, . . . else to-morrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely what we have thought and...

...and it does this around a figure that is sustained in Emerson and developed by Dewey. Emerson writes: "A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within."9 This is an image that symbolizes the sense of being and becoming in the path of perfection....