Emerson Transcendentalism Quotes

#1. Not for nothing one face, one character, one fact makes much impression on him, and another none.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#2. I have the words already. What I am seeking is the perfect order of words in the sentence. You can see for yourself how many different ways they might be arranged.

James Joyce

#3. It's a metaphor of human bloody existence, a dragon. And if that wasn't bad enough, it's also a bloody great hot flying thing.

Terry Pratchett

#4. Standing on the bare ground,
my head bathed by the blithe air and uplifted into infinite space,
all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eyeball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or parcel of God.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#5. Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#6. I'm not a player, I'm an alien ... My focus is on winning championships. I don't focus on anything else. Aliens only want to win championships.

Metta World Peace

#7. It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#8. Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#9. God is excited about your future, and I hope you are also. Don't let the discouragement of the past steal the amazing future that is yours.

Joyce Meyer

#10. The poor and the low have their way of expressing the last facts of philosophy as well as you. "Blessed be nothing," and "The worse things are, the better they are," are proverbs which express the transcendentalism of common life.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#11. Science does not know its debt to imagination.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#12. Grace is necessary to salvation, free will equally so - but grace in order to give salvation, free will in order to receive it.

Bernard Of Clairvaux

#13. That we have children coming into this world already polluted, at the same time we don't know what the effects of that pollution will be on their mental and physical development, is both bad policy and immorally wrong.

Louise Slaughter

#14. I saw the prequels in the theater," Gabe said. "When I was a kid. I thought they were awesome"
"And now?" she asked.
"They're my first love," he said. "I can't be objective.

Rainbow Rowell

#15. Let me admonish you, first of all, to go alone; to refuse the good models, even those most sacred in the imagination of men, and dare to love God without mediator or veil.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#16. The philanthropists inquire whether Transcendentalism does not mean sloth: they had as lief hear that their friend is dead, as that he is a Transcendentalist; for then is he paralyzed, and can never do anything for humanity.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#17. Does not ... the ear of Handel predict the witchcraft of harmonic sound?

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#18. Time which diminishes all things increases understanding for the aging.

Plutarch