 To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men,— that is genius. Speak your latent conviction, and it shall be the universal sense; for the inmost in due time becomes the outmost, and our...  Essays [1st ser., ed.] with preface by T. Carlyle - Seite 23von Ralph Waldo [essays] Emerson - 1853Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 354 Seiten
...Speak your latent conviction, and it shall be the universal sense ; for the inmost in due time becomes the outmost, — and our first thought is rendered...the mind is to each, the highest merit we ascribe to Mnsps, Platr^gjH Mil ton is, that they set at naught books and traditions, and spoke not what men but... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 400 Seiten
...latent conviction, and it shall be the universal sense; for always the inmost becomes the outmost—and our first thought is rendered back to us by the trumpets...ascribe to Moses, Plato, and Milton is, that they set at nought books and traditions, and spoke not what men, but what they thought. A man should learn to detect... | |
 | 1850 - 524 Seiten
...understand' and be able to make use of this last awful declaration' ? He then proceeds thus : — " Familiar as the voice of the mind is to each, the highest merit we ascribe to Moses, Phf-o, ana* Milton, is, that they set at nought books and traditioas, atid spoke not what men but what... | |
 | Fredrika Bremer - 1854 - 676 Seiten
...genius. Speak your latent conviction, and it shall be the universal sense ; for always the inmost becomes the outmost, and our first thought is rendered back to us by the trumpets of the last judgment. The highest merit which we ascribe to Mosos, Plato, and Milton is that which every man recognizes as... | |
 | Jules Remy, Julius Lucius Brenchley - 1861 - 660 Seiten
...of their having this high confidence in themselves, and the most supreme contempt for tradition. " The highest merit we ascribe to Moses, Plato, and...traditions, and spoke not what men, but what they thought.f .... Ah ! then, exclaimed the aged ladies, you shall be sure to be understood. Misunderstood... | |
 | Theodore Parker - 1864 - 626 Seiten
...present condition : " No man ever prayed heartily, without learning something." — Nature, p. 92. " The highest merit we ascribe to Moses, Plato, and Milton, is that they set at nonght books and traditions, and spoke not what men said but what they thought. A man should learn... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 592 Seiten
...Speak your latent conviction, and it shall be the universal sense ; for the inmost in due time becomes the outmost, — and our first thought is rendered...books and traditions, and spoke not what men but what thev thought. A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind... | |
 | Jacob Merrill Manning - 1872 - 420 Seiten
...Speak your latent conviction, and it shall be the universal sense; for the inmost in due time becomes the outmost, — and our first thought is rendered back to us by the trumpets of the last judgment." 2 Still another injunction, which Emerson finds in his general doctrine, and which he lays on us all,... | |
 | Jacob Merrill Manning - 1872 - 544 Seiten
...Speak your latent conviction, and it shall be the universal sense ; for the inmost in due time becomes the outmost, — and our first thought is rendered back to us by the trumpets of the last judgment."2 Still another injunction, which Emerson finds in his general doctrine, and which he lays... | |
 | Jacob Merrill Manning - 1872 - 420 Seiten
...Speak your latent conviction, and it shall be the universal sense ; for the inmost in due time becomes the outmost, — and our first thought is rendered back to us by the trumpets of the last judgment."2 Still another injunction, which Emerson finds in his general doctrine, and which he lays... | |
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