Transcendentalism Quotes

Transcendentalism Quote of the day

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

The essence of a democracy is a free electorate.

Very early, I knew that the only object in life was to grow.

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

In wildness is the preservation of the world.

Painting is the representation of visible forms. The essence of realism is its negation of the ideal.

Even as empiricism is winning the mind, transcendentalism continues to win the heart.

You can never really live anyone else's life, not even your child's. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you've become yourself.

I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life.

The uncertainty of the danger belongs to the essence of terrorism.

Advertising is the very essence of democracy.

Canada is the essence of not being. Not English, not American, it is the mathematic of not being. And a subtle flavour - we're more like celery as a flavour.

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.

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

As for Doing-good, that is one of the professions which are full.

The essence of Richard Nixon is loneliness.

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

Things are in the saddle. And ride mankind.

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.

I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practice resignation, unless it was quite necessary.

Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts.

I swear the earth shall surely be complete to him or her who shall be complete, The earth remains jagged and broken only to him or her who remains jagged and broken.

All unrest is but the struggle of the soul to reassure herself of her inborn immortality.

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

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

Every man is entitled to come to Cattle-Show, even a transcendentalist; and for my part I am more interested in the men than in the cattle.

We do not enjoy poetry unless we know it to be poetry.

Place yourself in the middle of the stream of power and wisdom which animates all whom it floats, and you are without effort impelled to truth, to right and a perfect contentment.

Does not… the ear of Handel predict the witchcraft of harmonic sound?

The troubles of modern life come from being divorced from nature.

Oneness is God.

Prayer… panacea for some, placebo to others. I thought of it as an epidural administered through the soul to anesthetize the mind.

Let the sounds of nature amplify your vibrations of peace.

What are the units of ontology really that I should be a part of a whole, but not be, in all my awareness, chiefly the whole unto itself?

Christ attained the ultimate spiritual oneness through prayer and devotion, Moses and Mohammed through prayer, Buddha and all the Indian sages through intense meditation and so did I. And so can you.

Once you attain the state of Absolute Oneness or Non-Duality, you become one of those spiritual legends that humanity so gloriously venerates as the founding fathers of religion.

Without even knowing, humanity actually worships not an Entity, rather a mental state.

The transcendental state of Absolute Oneness sets the human mind free.

The human self and the God self are both creations of molecules in the human brain.

The self, when confined into the usual wakeful state of consciousness, is human, but when enters into the transcendental state of Absolute Oneness, becomes God.

In the non-dual state, God, soul and universe are essentially one absolute system which is all-pervading, uncreated, self-luminous and eternal.

Awakening into the God state makes all the perceptual limitations of the mind disappear, just like a bucket of muddy water turns crystal-clear once poured into the ocean.

It is the ultimate religion, through which the son, the Father and all elements of the universe become unified.

For who can we be, but ourselves.

There is no such thing as 'God given scripture', 'the messenger of God' or 'the Last Prophet'.