On tops of mountains, as everywhere to hopeful souls, it is always morning. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We should not let our response to the people who disagree with us be dictated by what they say about us or… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
Meaning is what essence becomes when it is divorced from the object of reference and wedded to the word. — Willard Van Orman Quine Copy Share Image
“It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after your own;… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“[Transcendentalism maintains] that man has ideas, that come not through the five sense, or the powers of reasoning; but are either the… — Charles Mayo Ellis Copy Share Image
A man is wise with the wisdom of his time only, and ignorant with its ignorance. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
But what I attach great importance to is observation of the movement of colors. It is only in this way that I… — Robert Delaunay Copy Share Image
Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Another point of economy is to look for seed of the same kind as you sow, and not to hope to buy… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The very essence of rationalism is that it assumes that the reason is the highest faculty in man and the lord of… — Lyman Abbott Copy Share Image
“Every year the hatchlings wake in the swaying branches, in the silver baskets, and love the world. Is it necessary to say… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
The Buddhist, who thanks no man, who says "Do not flatter your benefactors," but who, in his conviction that every good deed… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
As the moral gloom of the world overpowers all systematic gaiety, even so was their home of wild mirth made desolate amid… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
I heartily accept the motto, "That government is best which governs least"; and I should like to see it acted up to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
To laugh often and much ... this is to have succeeded. Probably not from Emerson: here's the full quotation and the story. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
As for Doing-good, that is one of the professions which are full. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Prayer… panacea for some, placebo to others. I thought of it as an epidural administered through the soul to anesthetize the mind.” — Clyde Dsouza Copy Share Image
The so-called Transcendentalists are not the only people who deal in Transcendentals. On the contrary, we seem to see that the Utilitarians,--the… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“Let me admonish you, first of all, to go alone; to refuse the good models, even those most sacred in the imagination… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The Transcendentalist adopts the whole connection of spiritual doctrine. He believes in miracle, in the perpetual openness of thehuman mind to new… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
