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
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2005 - 69 páginas
...Suckle him with the she-wolf's teat, Wintered with the hawk and fox, Power and speed be hands and feet. I READ the other day some verses written by an eminent...genius. Speak your latent conviction, and it shall be universal sense; for always the inmost becomes the outmost — and our first thought is rendered back... | |
| Paul Guyer - 2005 - 386 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."2"' And, in a later essay, Emerson states his view of genius... | |
| Jodi O'Brien - 2006 - 586 páginas
...nonverbal process in words. . . . If we return to Emerson's passage, a second idea is suggested in (1), "To believe your own thought, to believe that what...private heart is true for all men — that is genius." This statement makes a connection between selfesteem and genius. It evokes the idea, in the strongest... | |
| Patrick J. Keane - 2005 - 575 páginas
...rejects, in "Self-Reliance," as conforming to "the world's opinion," instead of his own imperative. "To believe your own thought, to believe that what...private heart is true for all men — that is genius" (E&L 259). "I celebrate myself," Emersonian Whitman announces, more nonchalantly but no less momentously,... | |
| 2004 - 516 páginas
...Elizabeth Barrett Bnnvning The future is not a gift — it is an achievement. — Harry Lander Genius To believe your own thought, to believe that what...private heart is true for all men — that is genius. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but... | |
| Ellwood Johnson - 2005 - 300 páginas
...will one be potent, or self-reliant. Genius, he says, is merely the ability to listen to yourself. "To believe your own thought, to believe that what...private heart is true for all men — that is genius." In the essay on "History," he says, "Who hath access to this universal mind is a party to all that... | |
| Denis Donoghue - 2008 - 303 páginas
...railway. But he held to the idea of individuality as an idea, and invoked the genius of each of us. "To believe your own thought, to believe that what...your private heart is true for all men, — that is genius."22 It is also nonsense and vanity, if we think of people as the entities we see around us and... | |
| Amyn Lalji - 2005 - 140 páginas
...the core of this book is. The first one is by Ralph Waldo Emerson and the other by Anthony De Mello: "To believe your own thought, to believe that what...true for you in your private heart is true for all menthat is genius." A writer arrived at the monastery to write a book about the Master. "People say... | |
| Mitchell Meltzer - 2005 - 216 páginas
...Whitman celebrates in their radically democratic elitism? "To believe your own thought, to believe what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men — that," writes Emerson, "is genius." Whether Emerson himself would have denied the very title of confidence... | |
| Jeramy Patrick, Justin Helms - 2006 - 85 páginas
...jest. If one throws salt at you, you will not be harmed unless you have sore places. Latin Proverb "To believe your own thought, to believe that what...private heart is true for all men — that is genius." Waldo Emerson "The easiest thing m the world is to be you. The most difficult thing to be is what other... | |
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