Transcendentalism Quotes - Page 2

• Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Motivational, Love Life, Iron

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• People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Positive, Attitude, I Hate You

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• Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit. Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever, even if your whole world seems upset.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Spiritual, Peace, Upset

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• 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.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Walden ch. 18 (1854)

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• Allow yourself to trust joy and embrace it. You will find you dance with everything.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Happiness, Dancing, Joy

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• Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Motivational, Truth, Honesty

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.165, Harvard University Press

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• Every man is the builder of a temple called his body.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Motivational Sports, Men, Body

  1854 Walden, or Life in the Woods,'Higher Laws'.

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

  Henry David Thoreau

  Dead Poets Society, Wilderness, Great Outdoors

  "Walden: Or, Life in the Woods".

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• Originality is the essence of true scholarship. Creativity is the soul of the true scholar.

  Nnamdi Azikiwe

  Creativity, Essence, Soul

  Nnamdi Azikiwe “ZIK A SELECTION FROM THE SPEECHES OF NNAMDI AZIKIWE Governor-General of the Federation of Nigeria formerly President of the Nigerian Senate formerly Premier of the Eastern Region of Nigeria”, CUP Archive

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• Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Men, Being Different

  1841 Essays: First Series,'Self-Reliance'.

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• When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Life, Nature

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Ernest Spiller, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Joseph Slater, Jean Ferguson Carr (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature, addresses, and lectures”, p.128, Harvard University Press

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• In actual life it requires the greatest discipline to be simple, and the acceptance of oneself is the essence of the moral problem and the epitome of a whole outlook upon life.

  Carl Jung

  Acceptance, Outlook On Life, Essence

  "Modern Man in Search of a Soul".

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• That government is best which governs least.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Freedom, Democracies Have, Government

  Civil Disobedience (1849) See Ralph Waldo Emerson 29; O'Sullivan 1; Shipley 1

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• It is better to create than to learn! Creating is the essence of life.

  Julius Caesar

  Life, Business, Learning

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• To be great is to be misunderstood.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Success, Inspiration, Greatness

  Essays "Self-Reliance" (1841)

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• Children are born innocent. Before they are domesticated they live in the moment, love without fear, and don't even think about the opinions of others.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Children, Family Love, Thinking

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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.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Reading, Book, Learning

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• I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practise resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Cutting, Wish

  Walden ch. 2 (1854)

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• Transcendentalism is, we might say, an early form of anarchism. The Transcendentalists also did not call themselves anarchists, but there are anarchist ideas in their thinking and in their literature. They were all suspicious of authority. We might say that the Transcendentalism played a role in creating an atmosphere of skepticism towards authority, towards government.

  Howard Zinn

  Thinking, Government, Ideas

  "Rebels Against Tyranny". Interview with Ziga Vodovnik, www.counterpunch.org. May 12, 2008.

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

  Gustave Courbet

  Artist, Essence, Painting

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• Nature provides exceptions to every rule.

  Margaret Fuller

  Nature, Rivers, Exception To The Rule

  Margaret Fuller, Margaret F. Ossoli (2008). “Woman in the Ninteenth Century (EasyRead Large Edition)”, p.122, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Instinct, Acquire

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1808). “Select Essays and Poems”, p.59

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• 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.

  Sai Baba

  Food, Men, Essence

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• A man is wise with the wisdom of his time only, and ignorant with its ignorance.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Wise, Wisdom, Ignorance

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Quotable Thoreau: An A to Z Glossary of Inspiring Quotations from Henry David Thoreau”, p.109, BookBaby

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• 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.

  William J. Clinton

  Confusion, People, Childhood

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