Transcendentalism Quotes - Page 7

• Two attempts have been made in the world to found social life: the one was upon religion, and the other was upon social necessity. The one was founded upon spirituality, the other upon materialism; the one upon transcendentalism, the other upon realism.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Two, World, Spirituality

  Swami Vivekananda, Vivekananda Kendra (2009). “Swami Vivekananda's Rousing Call to Hindu Nation”, p.43, Vivekananda Kendra

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• Every hero becomes a bore at last.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Motivational, Badass, Hipster

  'Representative Men' (1850) 'Uses of Great Men'

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

  Avicenna

  Essence, Form, Infant

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• The first essence of journalism is to know what you want to know, the second, is to find out who will tell you.

  John Gunther

  Essence, Want, Firsts

  John Gunther (1962). “A fragment of autobiography: the fun of writing the inside books”

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• 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.

  Lyman Abbott

  Men, Essence, Assuming

  Lyman Abbott (1872). “Laicus: Or, The Experiences of a Layman in a Country Parish”, p.9

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• When it's working, what acting is really about is getting into the essence of a moment in a creative, joyous way - through whatever frees you up.

  Lili Taylor

  Essence, Creative, Acting

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• For more than five years I maintained myself thus solely by the labour of my hands, and I found, that by working about six weeks in a year, I could meet all the expenses of living.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Hands, Years, Six

  'Walden' (1854) 'Economy'

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• People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Inspirational, People, Understanding

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• A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Greatness, Mind

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2001). “The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson: 1843 - 1871”, p.136, University of Georgia Press

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• To laugh often and much ... this is to have succeeded. Probably not from Emerson: here's the full quotation and the story.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Laughing, Stories, Laugh Often

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• Conservatism makes no poetry, breathes no prayer, has no invention; it is all memory. Reform has no gratitude, no prudence, no husbandry.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Gratitude, Prayer, Memories

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1191, Delphi Classics

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• To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact.

  Charles Darwin

  Inspirational, Truth, New Relationship

  Charles Darwin (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Darwin (Illustrated)”, p.11523, Delphi Classics

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• Even though your kids will consistently do the exact opposite of what you're telling them to do, you have to keep loving them just as much.

  Bill Cosby

  Funny, Children, Humor

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• As the moral gloom of the world overpowers all systematic gaiety, even so was their home of wild mirth made desolate amid the sad forest.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Home, Systematic, Mirth

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (1998). “Young Goodman Brown and Other Tales”, p.143, Oxford University Press, USA

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