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" 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. "
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by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1900
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Postmodernity and Cross-culturalism

Yoshinobu Hakutani - 2002 - 230 pages
...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,...
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Civilization's Quotations: Life's Ideal

Richard Alan Krieger - 2007 - 344 pages
..."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...
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The Secret Creator Within: 23 Ways to Awaken Your Creative Genius

Victor K. Pryles - 2002 - 204 pages
...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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Creative Stars: Using Astrology to Tap Your Muse

Trish MacGregor, T. J. MacGregor - 2002 - 324 pages
...quest leads you to the grail — a creative life. PART ONE CJun (Jians ana L/reative Jnemes To helieve your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true (or all men — that is genius. — Ralph \\'iildo Emerson ^/istroloqu ana -jour ^irfisfic JDluebrint...
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Emerson’s Transcendental Etudes

Stanley Cavell, David Justin Hodge - 2003 - 300 pages
...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...
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Emerson's Life in Science: The Culture of Truth

Laura Dassow Walls - 2003 - 302 pages
...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...
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Reconstituting the American Renaissance: Emerson, Whitman, and the Politics ...

Jay Grossman - 2003 - 292 pages
...memories of the 1881 Boston suppression of Leaves on largely these same corporeal grounds. 7 For example: "To believe your own thought, to believe that what...true for you in your private heart is true for all men,—that is genius" ("Self-Reliance," LAE 259). 8 Apparently Greeley had a tendency to act this...
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Contending for the Faith: The Church's Engagement with Culture

Ralph C. Wood - 2003 - 226 pages
...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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Emerson As Spiritual Guide: A Companion to Emerson's Essays for Personal ...

156 pages
...but more like and not less like other men." This is why Emerson insists, as in "Self-Reliance," that "to believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you is true for all men, — that is genius." Contrary to what many of his critics have believed, self-reliance...
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The Authentic Career: Following the Path of Self-Discovery to Professional ...

Maggie Craddock - 2010 - 240 pages
...people saw was a young woman who was quoted in the financial headlines, spoke frequently at national Mil To believe your own thought, to believe that what...private heart is true for all men — that is genius. — Ralph Waldo Emerson investment conferences, and had been profiled on a special segment of CNBC....
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