...nature. Emerson's essay "Self-Reliance" was one of the most famous statements of the new romanticism. "To believe your own thought, to believe that what...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...

...mercy of the selection, intelligence, and possible mendacity of the respondents. Emerson said that "to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men, - that is genius" (48). I can see no reason why anyone should buy genius by assenting to such an unlikely proposition,...

...presumably, is that no imitator can be a genius, and genius is the tonic of the essay. To believe in your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all — that is genius.65 In The American Scholar, Emerson calls genius "the sound estate of everyman."66...

...can be a path to becoming more effective as a therapist — and a human being. I trust Emerson's,2 "To believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all ... is genius." Our humanity is essential for therapeutic chemistry. Being fully present conveys a...

...informs Emerson's "Self-Reliance," where it implies die necessity, and die impossibility, of knowing diat "what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men."58 To die extent that Emerson's statement holds true in American culture, however, it is less...

..."[R]ead your own life and comprehend from it the hieroglyphics of universal life." (SE p. 142) (3b) To believe your own thought, to believe that what...latent conviction, and it shall be the universal sense. ("Self-reliance," p. 259) (4a) "[H]uman beings ... are timid. They hide themselves behind customs and...

...peripheral they may appear in terms of conventional rubrics, are large enough to be representative. "To believe your own thought, to believe that what...private heart is true for all men — that is genius," Emerson boldly declares. And though we might want to remove any possibility of a restrictive reading...

...peripheral they may appear in terms of conventional rubrics, are large enough to be representative. "To believe your own thought, to believe that what...private heart is true for all men — that is genius," Emerson boldly declares. And though we might want to remove any possibility of a restrictive reading...

...who head directly for the essay's fourth sentence, a comfortably Emersonian "a priori deduction" 7 : "To believe your own thought, to believe that what...true for you in your private heart is true for all men,—that is genius." Logically, this apothegm seems to follow from the truncated quasi citation,...

...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...