 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
 | 1923 - 434 pages
...expense of that fine individualism of the Oxonian who, like Emerson's scholar, "learns to detect the gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within more than the lustre of firmament of bards and sages." In general, the disposition to separate sharply the debating from the... | |
 | 1919 - 966 pages
...Plato and Milton is that they set at naught books and traditions, and spoke not what men, but what they g the weary way we tread, s And sorrow crown each...shun, no darkness dread. Our hearts still whisperi luster of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it... | |
 | Enoch Burton Gowin - 1919 - 552 pages
...within themselves. "Trust thyself," says Ralph Waldo Emerson, "every heart vibrates to that iron string. 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." The man who would accomplish exceptional things should... | |
 | George McCready Price - 1920 - 248 pages
...all men, — that is genius. Speak your latent conviction, and it shall be the universal sense. ... A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam...flashes across his mind from within, more than the luster of bards and sages." We have seen several examples of how this method works in natural science... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1921 - 580 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...his. In every work of genius we recognize our own re' jected thoughts: they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty. Great works of art have... | |
 | Rollo Walter Brown - 1921 - 386 pages
...Emerson,1 "is that they set at nought books and traditions, and spoke not what men thought, but what they thought. A man should learn to detect and watch that...thought because it is his. In every work of genius we recognise our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty. " It is... | |
 | Stanley Cavell - 1994 - 214 pages
...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... | |
 | William Safire, Leonard Safir - 1990 - 436 pages
...true for you in your heart is true for all men, — that is genius. ... A man should Intuition 199 learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which...than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. — Ralph Waldo Emerson . . . there is no prescribed route to follow to arrive at a new idea. You have... | |
 | Russell B. Goodman - 1990 - 182 pages
...of truth requires the special epistemological attitude that Emerson sees in his selfreliant heroes: "A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam...than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages." But there is a darker, even tragic side to the claim that truth comes only by surprise: We cannot be... | |
 | Thomas J. Scheff - 1990 - 231 pages
...the outmost, and our first thought is rendered back to us by the trumpets of the Last Judgment. [2] A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam...than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. [3] Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize... | |
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