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• Human reason has this peculiar fate that in one species of its knowledge it is burdened by questions which, as prescribed by the very nature of reason itself, it is not able to ignore, but which, as transcending all its powers, it is also not able to answer.

  Immanuel Kant

  Nature, Fate, Peculiar

  Immanuel Kant (1995). “Kant”, Element Books

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• Whatever appeals to the imagination, by transcending the ordinary limits of human ability, wonderfully encourages and liberates us.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Imagination, Ordinary, Limits

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.132

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• I am aware that many divines are far more marvelous than I am, and that I cannot wholly appreciate merits so far transcending my own. Nevertheless, even after making allowances under this head, I cannot but think that Omnipotence operating through all eternity might have produced something better.

  Bertrand Russell

  Thinking, Omnipotence, Appreciate

  Bertrand Russell (1957). “Why I Am Not a Christian: And Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects”, p.32, Simon and Schuster

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• There was a band very early on in our class, and I played in that band and as a teenager, I continued. It was more from my own relationship with the instruments at this time, figuring out the instrument and then having to learn different pieces that I really got into music. I really discovered the almost transcending power of music. And I think that is why I am so into it.

  Agnes Obel

  Teenager, Thinking, Class

  Source: puregrainaudio.com

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• That's part of that thing of transcending languages. Every person will have their own language.

  Jerry Garcia

  Language, Persons

  Source: medium.com

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• I really got attracted to the idea of touching so many people and that idea of art transcending entertainment and art and activism being synonymous.

  Kofi Siriboe

  Art, Ideas, People

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• Transcending mind-made limitations doesn't mean you stop being yourself. On the contrary, you become more yourself than ever before.

  Steve Ross

  Being Yourself, Mean, Mind

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• Nothing can occur beyond the strength of faith to sustain, or, transcending the resources of religion, to relieve.

  Thomas Binney

  Affliction, Resources

  Thomas Binney (1853). “Is it Possible to Make the Best of Both Worlds?: A Book for Young Men”, p.76

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• Transcending class distinctions, the speaker [Stalin] portrays the relation between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat as a mere division of labor. The workers and soldiers achieve the revolution, Guchkov and Miliukov "fortify" it.[...] This superintendent's approach to the historical process is exactly characteristic of the leaders of Menshevism, this handing out of instructions to various classes and then patronizingly criticizing their fulfillment.

  Leon Trotsky

  Class, Division Of Labor, Leader

  Leon Trotsky (2017). “History of the Russian Revolution”, p.306, Penguin UK

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• Our goal is to go from bright to brighter to brightest, from high to higher to highest. And even in the highest, there is no end to our progress, for God Himself is inside each of us and God at every moment is transcending His own Reality.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Reality, Goal, Progress

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• The aim of scientific thought, then, is to apply past experience to new circumstances; the instrument is an observed uniformity in the course of events. By the use of this instrument it gives us information transcending our experience, it enables us to infer things that we have not seen from things that we have seen; and the evidence for the truth of that information depends on our supposing that the uniformity holds good beyond our experience.

  William Kingdon Clifford

  Past, Supposing That, Giving

  William Kingdon Clifford (1999). “The Ethics of Belief and Other Essays”, Pyr Books

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• Flowers... that are so pathetic in their beauty, frail as the clouds, and in their coloring as gorgeous as the heavens, had through thousands of years been the heritage of children - honored as the jewelry of God only by them - when suddenly the voice of Christianity, counter-signing the voice of infancy, raised them to a grandeur transcending the Hebrew throne, although founded by God himself, and pronounced Solomon in all his glory not to be arrayed like one of these.

  Thomas de Quincey

  Children, Flower, Clouds

  "Confessions of an English Opium-Eater". Book by Thomas de Quincey, 1821.

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• Artists are most themselves when they are out of their minds, transcending the ego skirmishes of conceptual thought, and intuitively relinquishing control to the greater Creator

  Alex Grey

  Artist, Ego, Mind

  Alex Grey (2008). “Art Psalms”, p.37, North Atlantic Books

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• "Transcending the ego" thus actually means to transcend but include the ego in a deeper and higher embrace, first in the soul or deeper psychic, then with the Witness or primordial Self, then with each previous stage taken up, enfolded, included, and embraced in the radiance of One Taste. And that means we do not "get rid" of the small ego, but rahter, we inhabit it fully, live it with verve, use it as the necessary vehicle through which higher truths are communicated. Soul and Spirit include body, emotions, and mind; they do not erase them.

  Ken Wilber

  Taken, Mean, Self

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• Love is transcending the ego to connect with another.

  Joan Konner

  Love Is, Ego

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• Niko's angular face caught a flicker of firelight and Tempus saw his future there: sharp purpose, discipline, and power in perfect balance; love of man and gods, and mercy transcending all. If war ever wore a more humane face, this one would make it so.

  Janet Morris

  Determination, War, Responsibility

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• When every autumn people said it could not last through the winter, and when every spring there was still no end in sight, only the hope that out of it all some good would accrue to mankind kept men and nations fighting. When at last it was over, the war had many diverse results and one dominant one transcending all others: disillusion.

  Barbara Tuchman

  Hope, Spring, War

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• As a young man, I yearned for the day when, rooted in the experience that comes only with age, I could do my work fearlessly. But today, in my mid-sixties, I realize that I will feel fear from time to time for the rest of my life. I may never get rid of my fear. But . . . I can learn to walk into it and through it whenever it rises up . . . naming the inner force that triggers . . . fear . . . Naming our fears aloud . . . is the first step toward transcending them.

  Parker J. Palmer

  Men, Age, May

  Parker J. Palmer (2009). “A Hidden Wholeness: The Journey Toward an Undivided Life”, p.105, John Wiley & Sons

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• Working within the limits of the medium forces us to change our own limits. Improvisation is not breaking with forms and limitations just to be 'free,' but using them as the very means of transcending ourselves.

  Stephen Nachmanovitch

  Mean, Limits, Form

  Stephen Nachmanovitch (1991). “Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art”, p.84, Penguin

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• Man's being is made of such strange stuff as to be partly akin to nature and partly not, at once natural and extranatural, a kind of ontological centaur, half immersed in nature, half transcending it.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Men, Centaurs, Half

  "History as a System". Book by Jose Ortega y Gasset, 1962.

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• Going on stage and transcending the audience and becoming this otherworldly thing makes you a dancer. It's not so black and white.

  Misty Copeland

  Black And White, Dancer, Becoming

  Source: collider.com

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• I want to strip my work of 'effects' until it stands monolithic, based on reality and yet transcending it. It must flow naturally from my materials, from the way of the chisel and the way of the block... It is the ultimate ideal.

  Shiko Munakata

  Block, Reality, Way

  Shikō Munakata (1991). “The Woodblock and the Artist: The Life and Work of Shiko Munakata”

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• A large plural society cannot be governed without recognizing that, transcending its plural interests, there is a rational order with a superior common law.

  Walter Lippmann

  Order, Law, Common

  Walter Lippmann (1955). “Essays in the Public Philosophy”, p.106, Transaction Publishers

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• God is not related to creatures as though belonging to a different "genus," but as transcending every "genus," and as the principle of all "genera.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Principles, Different, Creatures

  Thomas Aquinas (1997). “Basic Writings of St. Thomas Aquinas: Volume One”, p.41, Hackett Publishing

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• The testimony of the greatest humans who have ever lived is that the way to make the most of ourselves is by transcending ourselves. We must learn to move beyond self-centeredness to make room within ourselves for others. When you transcend yourself, the fact will be confirmed by the quality of your life. We will attain - even if only momentarily - a transparency and a radiance of being which results from living both within and beyond yourself. This is the promise and the excitement of self-understanding.

  Don Richard Riso

  Moving, Self, Understanding

  Don Richard Riso, Russ Hudson (2000). “Understanding the Enneagram: The Practical Guide to Personality Types”, p.370, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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