Question

What is Emerson saying in the following quotation: “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.”

Answer 1

Answer: 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. Speak your latent conviction, and it shall be the universal sense; for the inmost in due time becomes the outmost

Answer 2

Answer: For, there is nothing more important and more essential that the original self.