Top 15 Quotes About Transcendentalism By Ralph Waldo Emerson

#1. 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

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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#3. 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

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#4. 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

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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#6. I never have time to myself; it's the one thing about my life I would probably hope to change.

Juliet Stevenson

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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#9. I don't want to get hung up on what 'people,' that nebulous mass, think about me. That's the way to unhappiness, I think.

Monica Ali

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#10. 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

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#11. It is my belief, that we should not be too sure of having found Christ in ourselves until we have found him also in that part of humanity that is most remote from our own.

Thomas Merton

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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#13. I can sing; I can hold a tune.

Brandon Adams

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#14. 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

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#15. For you cannot live in New York City very long and not be conscious of the niceties of being rich - the city is, after all, an ecstatic exercise in merchandising - and one evening of his visit to Venezuela Sutherland sat straight up when he read a line of Santayana's: Money is the petrol of life.

Andrew Holleran

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