...mankind. As he expresses it in a passage of "Self- Reliance" already referred to in the introduction, "To believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men — that is genius." Today's reader may have trouble sharing Emerson's faith in the ability of the individual to contain...

...clings to the life of God is in the midst of the garden [of paradise]. — Ten Rungs: Hasidic Sayings 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, and our first thought is rendered back to us by the trumpets...

...OverSoul."" In the first essay, he urges the individual subject to rely on his or her own thoughts and ideas: "To believe your own thought, to believe that what...private heart is true for all men, — that is genius" (175). Here, we find a celebration of the Great Ideas that belong to Great Men. Throughout this essay,...

..."Genius is sacrificed to talent every day." — "Great geniuses have the shortest biographies." — "To believe your own thought, to believe that what...private heart is true for all men — that is genius." — Emerson "Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor...

...from "Self Reliance" by Ralph Waldo Emerson will shed light on the essence of this timeless message: * To believe your own thought, to believe that what...true for you in your private heart is true for all men-that is genius. (How often have you been guilty of saying "I knew that was what should be done,...

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...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...