Transcendentalism Quotes

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  • Respond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment.

    Laozi, Archie J. Bahm (1996). “Tao Teh King”, p.57, Jain Publishing Company
  • Every man is the builder of a temple called his body.

    1854 Walden, or Life in the Woods,'Higher Laws'.
  • The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future.

    Past   Essence   Politics  
  • 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.

    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • A man of rare common sense and directness of speech, as of action; a transcendentalist above all, a man of ideas and principles,Mthat was what distinguished him.

    Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.241, Graphic Arts Books
  • I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.

    Reading   Book   Learning  
  • 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.

    Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.3143, Delphi Classics
  • The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.

    Walden ch. 1 (1854)
  • The essence of lying is in deception, not in words.

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

    Mean   Essence   Oneness  
  • 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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  • On tops of mountains, as everywhere to hopeful souls, it is always morning.

    Morning   Hopeful   Soul  
    Henry David Thoreau (1999). “Elevating Ourselves: Thoreau on Mountains”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Violence, even well intentioned, always rebounds upon oneself.

    War   Taoism   Violence  
  • If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

    Walden ch. 18 (1854)
  • We should not let our response to the people who disagree with us be dictated by what they say about us or even how they treat people we care for. There has to be a chance that we can find love.

  • What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

  • The essence of all religions is one. Only their approaches are different.

    Mahatma Gandhi (1968). “The Selected Works of Mahatma Gandhi: Satyagraha in South Africa”
  • We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases.

    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.115, Library of America
  • There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant

    Wise   Wisdom   Ignorance  
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2694, Delphi Classics
  • Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts.

    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1808). “Select Essays and Poems”, p.59
  • The essence of humanity's spiritual dilemma is that we evolved genetically to accept one truth and discovered another. Is there a way to erase the dilemma, to resolve the contradictions between the transcendentalist and the empiricist world views?

    E. O. Wilson (2014). “Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge”, p.391, Vintage
  • 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.

    Hands   Years   Six  
    'Walden' (1854) 'Economy'
  • The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do.

    Harvard Business Review, John P. Kotter, Michael Porter, Elizabeth Olmsted Teisberg (2015). “Leadership, Strategy, and Innovation: Health Care Collection (8 Items)”, p.1721, Harvard Business Review Press
  • Integrity is the essence of everything successful.

  • Man seeks to change the foods available in nature to suit his tastes, thereby putting an end to the very essence of life contained in them.

    Food   Men   Essence  
  • 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, Vivekananda Kendra (2009). “Swami Vivekananda's Rousing Call to Hindu Nation”, p.43, Vivekananda Kendra
  • Male and female represent the two sides of the great radical dualism. But in fact they are perpetually passing into one another. Fluid hardens to solid, solid rushes to fluid. There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman.

    Margaret Fuller (2012). “Woman in the Nineteenth Century”, p.78, Courier Corporation
  • The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.

    Dance   Art   Positivity  
    Dale Carnegie (2017). “How to enjoy your life and your job”, p.117, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd
  • To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates, a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity and trust.

    Love   Life   Trust  
    Henry David Thoreau (1995). “Walden, Or, Life in the Woods”, p.9, Courier Corporation
  • 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.

    Air   Essence   Wings  
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