...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...some verses written by an eminent painter which were original and not conventional. The soul always hears an admonition in such lines, let the subject...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...

...leads to what is perhaps Emerson's most telling and widely quoted statement (from "Self-Reliance"): 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...

...returning words to language, as if making them common to us, ... the fourth sentence of 'Self-Reliance': 'To believe your own thought, to believe that what...private heart is true for all men, — that is genius'" (QO, 1 14). This version of the romantic's genius is "the promise that the private and the social will...

...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....