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
| Theodore Parker - 1907 - 552 Seiten
...his past history or present condition: " No man ever prayed heartily without learning something." t "The highest merit we ascribe to Moses, Plato, and...naught books and traditions, and spoke not what men said but what they thought. A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes... | |
| Ramananda Chatterjee - 1912 - 818 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 nt. Familiar as the voice of the mind is to le highest merit we ascribe to Moses, Plato ilton is that... | |
| Henry Guy Walters - 1907 - 116 Seiten
...thrusting in "Christian the laws of erring human - a ,i, t f^ concepts." Self-reliance (op. cit. p. 1.) "The highest merit we ascribe to Moses, Plato and Milton, is that they sat at naught hooks and traditions, and spoke, not what men, but what they thought." Self-reliance... | |
| Clark Ezra Carr - 1909 - 378 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...by the trumpets of the last judgment. Familiar as is the voice of the mind to each, the highest merit we ascribe to Moses, Plato, or Milton is that they... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1912 - 314 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 10 Last Judgment. Familiar as the voice of the mind is to each, the highest merit we ascribe to Moses,0... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1911 - 148 Seiten
...your latent conviction, and it shall be the universal sense ; 1 for the inmost in due time becomes the outmost, — and our first thought is rendered...of the Last Judgment. Familiar as the voice of the 10 mind is to each, the highest merit we ascribe to Moses, Plato,2 and Milton3 is, that they set at... | |
| Frederick William Roe, George Roy Elliott - 1913 - 512 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 10 of the Last Judgment. Familiar as the voice of the mind is to each, the highest merit we ascribe... | |
| Maurice Garland Fulton - 1914 - 556 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...books and traditions, and spoke not what men, but 1 From Essays, First Series. The second half of the essay Iios here been omitted. 158 what they thought.... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1915 - 200 Seiten
...sense ; for always the inmost becomes the outmost — and our first thought is rendered back to us byio the trumpets of the Last Judgment. Familiar as the...but what they thought. A man should learn to detect 27 and watch that gleam ' of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre... | |
| John Walter Ross - 1915 - 288 Seiten
...speak your latest 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 the highest merit we ascribe to Moses Plato and Milton is that they set at naught books and traditions... | |
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