On tops of mountains, as everywhere to hopeful souls, it is always morning. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There are always two parties; the establishment and the movement. — Ralph Waldo Emerson 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
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
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
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
“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
There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. — 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
Painting is the representation of visible forms. The essence of realism is its negation of the ideal. — Gustave Courbet Copy Share Image
“Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
In all things and in all ways, choice impacts virtually every element of our life. It bears repeating that even those things… — Mary Anne Radmacher Copy Share Image
. . . the wellspring for the passion that drove public speech and action in behalf of the environment was in large… — Catherine L. Albanese Copy Share Image
The poor and the low have their way of expressing the last facts of philosophy as well as you. "Blessed be nothing,"… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A walk in the woods can reveal many things, and it is a good time to practice transcendentalism. Look at a tree… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
For more than five years I maintained myself thus solely by the labour of my hands, and I found, that by working… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In actual life it requires the greatest discipline to be simple, and the acceptance of oneself is the essence of the moral… — Carl Jung 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
“Transcend and escape the dream you have created to create anew. Dreams and wishes do come true. When there is nothing to… — Ulonda Faye Copy Share Image
Transcendentalism is, we might say, an early form of anarchism. The Transcendentalists also did not call themselves anarchists, but there are anarchist… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“The one created thing which we cannot look at is the one thing in the light of which we look at everything.… — G.K. Chesterton 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
“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
“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
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
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Does not… the ear of Handel predict the witchcraft of harmonic sound?” — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I recognize the delivery of grace to my day, even if I cannot identify a specific return address. — Mary Anne Radmacher Copy Share Image
Children are born innocent. Before they are domesticated they live in the moment, love without fear, and don't even think about the… — Miguel Angel Ruiz Copy Share Image
Even as empiricism is winning the mind, transcendentalism continues to win the heart. — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Especially the transcendental philosophy needs the leaven of humor to render it light and digestible. — Henry David Thoreau 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
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
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
