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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.
Robert
This is highlighted many times, but staggeringly wrong. It even seems to go against transendentalists theory, where one's intuition is their personal guide. Transendentalists didn't just accept society's morality, so how can a transcendentalist think his intuition guides all people?
Self-Reliance and Other Essays
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