Transcendentalism Quotes - Page 3

• To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.

  Bono

  Beautiful, Respect, Being Yourself

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• One must love humanity in order to reach out into the unique essence of each individual: no one can be too low or too ugly.

  Georg Buchner

  Unique, Order, Essence

  "Lenz". Book by Georg Buchner, 1835.

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• Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.

  Gautama Buddha

  Inspiring, Wise, Buddhist

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• There is an optical illusion about every person we meet.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Optical Illusions, Illusion, Persons

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco, Joel Myerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.229, Harvard University Press

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• In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Fear, Failure

  Essays "Prudence" (1841)

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• Respond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Positivity, Intelligent

  Laozi, Archie J. Bahm (1996). “Tao Teh King”, p.57, Jain Publishing Company

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• The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Life, Success

  Walden ch. 1 (1854)

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• Wherever a man goes, men will pursue him and paw him with their dirty institutions, and, if they can, constrain him to belong to their desperate odd-fellow society.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Dirty, Men, Atheism

  'Walden' (1854) 'The Village'

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• 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.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Government, Anarchist, Motto

  Civil Disobedience (1849) See Ralph Waldo Emerson 29; O'Sullivan 1; Shipley 1

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• Back through the ages of barbarism and civilization, in all tongues, we find this instinctive pleasure in the imitative action that is the very essence of all drama.

  George P. Baker

  Drama, Essence, Civilization

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

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Song, Night, Born

  Mary Anne Radmacher (2008). “Live Boldly: Cultivate the Qualities That Can Change Your Life”, Conari Press

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• A walk in the woods can reveal many things, and it is a good time to practice transcendentalism. Look at a tree and realize it's not just a tree, its roots may go into the ground but it may also go into other worlds, other eternities.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Practice, Other Worlds

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• Pursuit and seduction are the essence of sexuality. It's part of the sizzle.

  Camille Paglia

  Love, Essence, Seduction

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays”, p.59, Vintage

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• On tops of mountains, as everywhere to hopeful souls, it is always morning.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Morning, Hopeful, Soul

  Henry David Thoreau (1999). “Elevating Ourselves: Thoreau on Mountains”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• In all things and in all ways, choice impacts virtually every element of our life. It bears repeating that even those things which seem out of reach of our choice are governed by how we choose to perceive them.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Taken, Impact, Choices

  Jonathan Huie, Mary Anne Radmacher (2009). “Simply An Inspired Life: Consciously Choosing Unbounded Happiness in Good Times & Bad”, p.147, Conari Press

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

  Henry David Thoreau

  Use, May, Ecology

  Henry David Thoreau (2004). “Walden and Other Writings”, p.410, Bantam Classics

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• So what I did on the field was the essence of what I am. Remember me like that.

  Steve Carlton

  Sports, Essence, Fields

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• All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Trust, Faith, Spiritual

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2011). “Natural Abundance: Ralph Waldo Emerson's Guide to Prosperity”, p.107, Simon and Schuster

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• Violence, even well intentioned, always rebounds upon oneself.

  Laozi

  War, Taoism, Violence

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• Male and female represent the two sides of the great radical dualism. But in fact they are perpetually passing into one another. Fluid hardens to solid, solid rushes to fluid. There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman.

  Margaret Fuller

  Women, Masculine And Feminine, Two Sides

  Margaret Fuller (2012). “Woman in the Nineteenth Century”, p.78, Courier Corporation

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• The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Life, Wisdom

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.60, Penguin

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• Ask today as you consider the many choices in your view - what is the highest and best use of your talents, skills and abilities? When you answer that, seize the opportunity to sharpen those qualities even more sharply by applying your focused effort.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Opportunity, Views, Skills

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• When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• God is all there is - God includes everything, all possibility and all action, for Spirit is the invisible essence and substance of all form.

  Ernest Holmes

  God, Essence, Substance

  Ernest Holmes (1984). “Living the Science of Mind: The Only Writings by the Founder of SCIENCE OF MIND to Help You Understand His Classic Textbook”, p.3, DeVorss & Company

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• None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Life, Birthday

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Thoreau on Nature: Sage Words on Finding Harmony with the Natural World”, p.40, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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