Self-Reliance consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds," is a running joke in the 1998 film "Next Stop Wonderland". A single woman (portrayed by Hope Davis), who is familiar with the Emerson quote, goes on dates with several men, each of whom tries to impress her by referencing the line, but misquotes it and misattributes it to W.C. Fields, Karl Marx, or Cicero. The woman finally meets a man (portrayed by Alan Gelfant) who correctly attributes the quote to Emerson. Self-Reliance "Self-Reliance" is an 1841 essay written by American transcendentalist philosopher and essayist Ralph Waldo Emerson. It contains the most thorough
Essays on Truth and Reality Essays on Truth and Reality Essays on Truth and Reality is a 1914 book by the English philosopher Francis Herbert Bradley, in which the author expounds his philosophy of absolute idealism and gives the classic statement of a coherence theory of truth and knowledge. The British philosopher Timothy Sprigge has suggested that in some respects Bradley's absolute idealism receives a better exposition in "Essays on Truth and Reality" than it had in Bradley's earlier work "Appearance and Reality" (1893). He notes that Bradley's coherence theory of truth is the classic statement of such a position, comparing Bradley's views to those