Transcendentalism Quotes

The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do.

As to the mental essence, we find it in infants devoid of every mental form.

The essence of a democracy is a free electorate.

There is an optical illusion about every person we meet.

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

The essence of good government is trust.

Cruel persecutions and intolerance are not accidents, but grow out of the very essence of religion, namely, its absolute claims.

In wildness is the preservation of the world.

Painting is the representation of visible forms. The essence of realism is its negation of the ideal.

You can never really live anyone else's life, not even your child's. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you've become yourself.

I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life.

The uncertainty of the danger belongs to the essence of terrorism.

Advertising is the very essence of democracy.

Canada is the essence of not being. Not English, not American, it is the mathematic of not being. And a subtle flavour - we're more like celery as a flavour.

The essence of government is control, or the attempt to control.

I heartily accept the motto, "That government is best which governs least"; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically.

Meaning is what essence becomes when it is divorced from the object of reference and wedded to the word.

The essence of Richard Nixon is loneliness.

Surely, we are provided with senses as well fitted to penetrate the spaces of the real, the substantial, the eternal, as these outward are to penetrate the material universe. Veias, Menu, Zoroaster, Socrates, Christ, Shakespeare, Swedenborg,--these are some of our astronomers.

As for Doing-good, that is one of the professions which are full.

I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practice resignation, unless it was quite necessary.

The very essence of rationalism is that it assumes that the reason is the highest faculty in man and the lord of all the rest.

Things are in the saddle. And ride mankind.

Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts.

We do not enjoy poetry unless we know it to be poetry.

Even from the darkest night songs of beauty can be born.

The so-called Transcendentalists are not the only people who deal in Transcendentals. On the contrary, we seem to see that the Utilitarians,--the every-day world's people themselves, far transcend those inferior Transcendentalists by their own incomprehensible worldly maxims.

Everything may serve a lower as well as a higher use.

Every man is entitled to come to Cattle-Show, even a transcendentalist; and for my part I am more interested in the men than in the cattle.