Transcendentalism Quotes - Page 5

• We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  America, Fickle, Disease

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.115, Library of America

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• I recognize the delivery of grace to my day, even if I cannot identify a specific return address.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Grace, Addresses, Return

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• The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason.

  Charles Darwin

  Inspirational, Essence, Intuition

  Charles Darwin (2016). “The Descent of Man: the Evolution”, p.113, VM eBooks

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• Above all, I craved to seize the whole essence, in the confines of one single photograph, of some situation that was in the process of unrolling itself before my eyes.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Photography, Eye, Essence

  Peter Galassi, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) (1987). “Henri Cartier-Bresson, the early work”

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• The essence of Richard Nixon is loneliness.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Loneliness, Essence

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• What sculptors do is represent the essence of gesture. What is important in mime is attitude.

  Marcel Marceau

  Attitude, Essence, Important

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• I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Change, Truth, Clothes

  1854 Walden, or Life in the Woods,'Economy'.

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

  Willard Van Orman Quine

  Essence, Divorced, Objects

  Willard Van Orman Quine, Roger F. Gibson (2004). “Quintessence: Basic Readings from the Philosophy of W.V. Quine”, p.33, Harvard University Press

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• There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Years, Essence, Progress

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  I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Nature, Adventure, Dead Poets Society

  Walden ch. 2 (1854)

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• The essence of greatness is neglect of the self.

  James Anthony Froude

  Acceptance, Greatness, Self

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• The essence of all religions is One. Surrender is the main duty of everyone. Surrender means the feeling of oneness, I and God are One. Why? The reason is that the One who is present in you is present in me.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Mean, Essence, Oneness

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• 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

  Philosophy, Blessed, Way

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.129, Courier Corporation

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• If a man constantly aspires is he not elevated?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Motivational, Men, Desire

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.357, Penguin

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

  Benjamin Tucker

  Government, Essence

  Benjamin Ricketson Tucker (1926). “Individual liberty: selections from the writings of Benjamin R. Tucker”

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• Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Strong, Animal, Humanity

  Journal, 11 Nov. 1850

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• The essence of man is, discontent, divine discontent; a sort of love without a beloved, the ache we feel in a member we no longer have.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Love, Men, Essence

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

  Morris Raphael Cohen

  Essence, Religion, Intolerance

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• The essence of lying is in deception, not in words.

  John Ruskin

  Lying, Essence, Political

  John Ruskin (1910*). “The Complete Works of John Ruskin”

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• Science sometimes falls short when trying to fathom the depths of our essence - and our inspiration comes from that essence.

  Lance Secretan

  Inspiration, Fall, Essence

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• Like bones to the human body, the axle to the wheel, the wing to the bird, and the air to the wing, so is liberty the essence of life. Whatever is done without it is imperfect.

  Jose Marti

  Air, Essence, Wings

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• But what I attach great importance to is observation of the movement of colors. It is only in this way that I have found the laws of complementary contrast and the simultaneity of those colors that nourish the rhythm of my vision. There I find the representative essence — which does not arise from a system or an a priori theory.

  Robert Delaunay

  Essence, Color, Doe

  "The New Art of Color: The Writings of Robert and Sonia Delaunay".

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• Praying without ceasing is not ritualized, nor are there even words. It is a constant state of awareness of oneness with God.

  Peace Pilgrim

  God, Peace, Oneness

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.75, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• . . . the wellspring for the passion that drove public speech and action in behalf of the environment was in large part religious and ethical. Environmentalism, in short, had become one version of nature religion in the lingering shadow of American transcendentalism.

  Catherine L. Albanese

  Religious, Passion, Shadow

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• It is characteristic of science that the full explanations are often seized in their essence by the percipient scientist long in advance of any possible proof.

  John Desmond Bernal

  Science, Essence, Long

  John Desmond Bernal (1967). “The origin of life”

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