 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 they thought. A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of...  Essays - Page 41by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 333 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Trine - 2007 - 246 pages
...whose lives have been lives of accomplishment and service for their fellow-men. Emerson, who said: "A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across Ms mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without... | |
 | Michael Taylor, Helmut Schreier, Paulo Ghiraldelli, Jr., Paulo Ghiraldelli Jr. - 2008 - 248 pages
...his Emersonian essay, Construction and Criticism'. As Emerson says in his essay on "Self-Reliance": "A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam...light which flashes across his mind from within." ... But it is not easy to detect and watch the gleams of light that flash from within. Education and... | |
 | Sherry Lee Mueller - 2008 - 265 pages
...should not be ignored. Ralph Waldo Emerson describes this with no small amount of literary elegance: "A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light that flashes across his mind from within, more than the luster of the firmament of bards and sages."1... | |
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