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
| Bobbi Zemo - 2006 - 249 páginas
...it does not get more powerful than that. Remember what Emerson said: "To believe your own thoughts, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men, -that is genius." I also want you to think about your limitations. Limitations are very often self-imposed and self-destructive.... | |
| Al Smith - 2007 - 464 páginas
...always hears an admonition in such lines, let the subject be what it may. The sentiment they instill is of more value than any thought they may contain....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... | |
| Al Smith - 2007 - 464 páginas
...always hears an admonition in such lines, let the subject be what it may. The sentiment they instill is of more value than any thought they may contain....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... | |
| Philipp Mehne - 2008 - 234 páginas
...Aufsatz, 1841 in Essays veröffentlicht,402 beginnt mit der universellen Formulierung menschlichen Genies: „To believe your own thought, to believe that what...your latent conviction and it shall be the universal [...]." Der Folgesatz bringt die metaphysische Verankerung: ,,[F]or the inmost in due time becomes... | |
| Tom Walsh - 2007 - 200 páginas
...always hears an admonition in such lines, let the subject be what it may. The sentiment they instill is of more value than any thought they may contain....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... | |
| Seamus Carey - 2007 - 184 páginas
...refers to as Genius. Genius, for Emerson, is not a function of IQ. It is a matter of belief. He writes, "to believe your own thought, to believe that what...private heart is true for all men — that is genius" (Emerson, 1984, p. 175, emphasis added). But belief in one's own ideas, the ideas in "one's private... | |
| Susan H. Swetnam - 2009 - 320 páginas
...reading Thoreau, actually, and reading other American Romantic thinkers such as Ralph Waldo Emerson. "To believe your own thought, to believe that what...private heart, is true for all men, — that is genius," wrote Emerson in "Self Reliance," an essay in praise of "original and not conventional" behavior that... | |
| John Matteson - 2007 - 506 páginas
...agents that even the attempt to communicate them can become a source of anguish. Emerson famously wrote, "To believe your own thought, to believe that what...your private heart is true for all men, — that is genius."68 But to know that one's thought and truth are not those of others and yet to manage to live... | |
| Ishay Landa - 2007 - 340 páginas
...shape the American liberal ethos, extolled individualism, speaking enthusiastically about the need 'to believe your own thought, to believe that what...for you in your private heart, is true for all men. ... A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within,... | |
| Leland S. Person - 2007 - 128 páginas
...represented the heyday of individualism, epitomized by Ralph Waldo Emerson's essay "Self Reliance" (1841). "To believe your own thought, to believe that what...for you in your private heart, is true for all men," Emerson famously wrote, "that is genius."20 Hawthorne might have longed for such confidence, but his... | |
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