As for Doing-good, that is one of the professions which are full. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Belief fuels our decisions - even when we are not clearly aware of those beliefs. — Mary Anne Radmacher 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
Mystery is in the morning, and mystery in the night, and the beauty of mystery is everywhere; but still the plain truth… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Conservatism makes no poetry, breathes no prayer, has no invention; it is all memory. Reform has no gratitude, no prudence, no husbandry. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Every man is entitled to come to Cattle-Show, even a transcendentalist; and for my part I am more interested in the men… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Wherever a man goes, men will pursue him and paw him with their dirty institutions, and, if they can, constrain him to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Originality is the essence of true scholarship. Creativity is the soul of the true scholar. — Nnamdi Azikiwe Copy Share Image
“In absolute incommunicableness it stood apart, a thought, a system of thought which as yet had no symbol in spoken language” — Fitz Hugh Ludlow Copy Share Image
When one man has reduced a fact of the imagination to be a fact to his understanding, I foresee that all men… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The essence of humanity's spiritual dilemma is that we evolved genetically to accept one truth and discovered another. Is there a way… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
The philanthropists inquire whether Transcendentalism does not mean sloth: they had as lief hear that their friend is dead, as that he… — Ralph Waldo Emerson 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
The residue of religion in my work appears as a modified transcendentalism, and the positivist scientific side of my thought appears as… — Louis Dudek Copy Share Image
Two attempts have been made in the world to found social life: the one was upon religion, and the other was upon… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The essence of all religions is One. Surrender is the main duty of everyone. Surrender means the feeling of oneness, I and… — Sathya Sai Baba 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
All this cut-price transcendentalism does not prevent California from being a startlingly physical state. This becomes most obvious where Los Angeles saunters… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
As we lay huddled together under the tent, which leaked considerably about the sides, with our baggage at our feet, we listened… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“The poet is the sayer, the namer, and represents beauty. He is a sovereign, and stands on the centre. For the world… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Money is representative, and follows the nature and fortunes of the owner...The farmer is covetous of his dollar, and with reason. It… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Only Fact is Me (Sonnet 2655) I'm the impulse before the language, I'm the reason before the science, I'm the pulse before… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“The Beats’ self-conception descended from a particular American lineage—mountain men, outlaws, frontier cranks, lonely individualists, and narcissistic outsiders sounding their barbaric yawps… — Kurt Andersen Copy Share Image
“And this love of definite conception, this clearness of vision, this artistic sense of limit, is the characteristic of all great work… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“None believeth in the soul of man, but only in some man or person old and departed. Ah me! no man goeth… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“They should own who can administer, not they who hoard and conceal; not they who, the greater proprietors they are, are only… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
So what I did on the field was the essence of what I am. Remember me like that. — Steve Carlton Copy Share Image
Especially the transcendental philosophy needs the leaven of humor to render it light and digestible. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Nature is so powerful, so strong. Capturing its essence is not easy - your work becomes a dance with light and the… — Annie Leibovitz Copy Share Image
I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practice resignation, unless… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
God is all there is - God includes everything, all possibility and all action, for Spirit is the invisible essence and substance… — Ernest Holmes Copy Share Image
Even though your kids will consistently do the exact opposite of what you're telling them to do, you have to keep loving… — Bill Cosby Copy Share Image
Allow yourself to trust joy and embrace it. You will find you dance with everything. — Ralph Waldo Emerson 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