Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes About Transcendentalism
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I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.
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Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
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What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.
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We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases.
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There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant
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Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts.
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We boil at different degrees.
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Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.
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People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
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Things are in the saddle. And ride mankind.
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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.
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Allow yourself to trust joy and embrace it. You will find you dance with everything.
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I dream of a better tomorrow, where chickens can cross the road and not be questioned about their motives.
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The philanthropists inquire whether Transcendentalism does not mean sloth: they had as lief hear that their friend is dead, as that he is a Transcendentalist; for then is he paralyzed, and can never do anything for humanity.
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The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.
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A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.
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You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
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Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.
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Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.
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The Transcendentalist adopts the whole connection of spiritual doctrine. He believes in miracle, in the perpetual openness of thehuman mind to new influx of light and power; he believes in inspiration, and in ecstacy.
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Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
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Every hero becomes a bore at last.
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All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.
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There are always two parties; the establishment and the movement.
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When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.
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The Buddhist, who thanks no man, who says "Do not flatter your benefactors," but who, in his conviction that every good deed can by no possibility escape its reward, will not deceive the benefactor by pretending that he has done more than he should, is a Transcendentalist.
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Don't be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams.
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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.
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All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
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Art is a jealous mistress.
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