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. Essays - Página 45por Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1841 - 371 páginasVisualização integral - Acerca deste livro
| Berys Gaut, Paisley Livingston - 2003 - 312 páginas
...have in the universal acceptability of his ideas. Thus, Emerson begins the same essay by stating that "To believe your own thought, to believe that what...conviction, and it shall be the universal sense; for the inmost in due time becomes the outmost."25 And, in a later essay, Emerson states his view of genius... | |
| Stanley Cavell, David Justin Hodge - 2003 - 300 páginas
...as the one and indispensable belief necessary to moral and social life."4 Compare this with Emerson: "To believe your own thought, to believe that what...private heart is true for all men — that is genius." Emerson expresses what he calls the ground of his hope that man is one, that we are capable of achieving... | |
| Laura Dassow Walls - 2003 - 302 páginas
...turn to the "heart" is a turn outward is, of course, repeated in the famous line from "Self-Reliance": "To believe your own thought, to believe that what...private heart, is true for all men, — that is genius"; CW 2:27. 48. CW 2:173-75. 49. CW 2:161. 50. EL 2: 355. The concept of the "modern" here is derived... | |
| Jay Grossman - 2003 - 296 páginas
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| Steve Kemper - 2003 - 340 páginas
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| Ralph C. Wood - 2003 - 226 páginas
...choices he or she makes but the capacity for choice itself." 18 Emerson sang this hymn in "SelfReliance": "To believe your own thought, to believe that what...true for you in your private heart is true for all men,—that is genius." Yet Whitman was its true bard: "The whole theory of the universe is directed... | |
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