Self-Reliance talks about a ton about exactly how people can depend on themselves a major piece of the act of brain science. It contains the most exhaustive explanation of one of Emerson's intermittent subjects, the requirement for every person to maintain a strategic distance from similarity and false consistency, and take after their own particular impulses and thoughts. It is the wellspring of one of Emerson's most acclaimed citations: "A stupid consistency is the demon of little personalities, loved by little statesmen and scholars and divines.