Transcendent Quotes

164 Transcendent quotes by 145 unique authors

We scientists, whose tragic destination has been to help in making the methods of annihilation more gruesome and more effective, must consider it our solemn… — Albert Einstein
There is a transcendent power in example. — Sophie Swetchine
There is often in people in whom 'the worst' has happened an almost transcendent freedom, for they have faced 'the worst' and survived it. — Carol Lynn Pearson
Normal Heart' was my most transcendent moment as an actor. — Ellen Barkin
People wouldn't even go into science unless there was something much bigger to be discovered, something that is transcendent. — David Eagleman
An organism exists for no other reason than that it is able to... The wonderful, almost transcendent thing about life on earth is that in… — Richard Mabey
Nature is imperfectly perfect, filled with loose parts and possibilities, with mud and dust, nettles and sky, transcendent hands-on moments and skinned knees. — Richard Louv
This (functional - E.W.) language controls by reducing the linguistic forms and symbols of reflection, abstraction, development, contradiction; by substituting images for concepts. It denies… — Herbert Marcuse
Art is about play and about transcendent meanings, not reducible to politics. — Rachel Kushner
Guys don't understand great art. They don't care that sometimes the camera has power beyond the photographer to record emotion that only the heart can… — Joan Bauer
I'm inspired by the words: 'electrifying', 'epic', 'minimalistic', 'transcendent', 'timeless' and 'rock n' roll. — Janelle Monae
The new culture war is about national identity rather than religion and 'transcendent authority.' It focuses on which groups the United States will formally admit… — E. J. Dionne
Religion is one dimension of culture, a transcendent element of it. — Francis Arinze
The establishment uses that rationale all the time, and that's why we do what we do. But leadership requires some understanding that you can say… — Norman Lear
The thing we long for, that we are For one transcendent moment. — James Russell Lowell
We've known about the transcendent power of solitude for centuries; it's only recently that we've forgotten it. — Susan Cain
The purpose of truly transcendent art is to express something you are not yet, but something that you can become. — Alex Grey
The secret of pleasure in life, as distinct from its great triumphs of transcendent joy, is to live in a series of small, legitimate successes.… — Sydney Thompson Dobell
Worship of a hero is transcendent admiration of a great man. — Thomas Carlyle
What a rare joy it is to linger in the lucid, transcendent worlds of Jennifer Maier's poems. In taut, precise language and lapidary images, Now,… — Rick Hilles
What a position of transcendent horror must that be, where the perpetrator of a great crime, till then a stranger to positive guilt, finds himself… — Christian Nestell Bovee
The history of religions, of which Christianity is a transcendent element, awaits the deepest study. It requires Bibles to free from Bibles. Comparative theology is… — Amos Bronson Alcott
Enough, if something from our hands have power To live, and act, and serve the future hour; And if, as toward the silent tomb we… — William Wordsworth
The great thing about Batman and Superman, in truth, is that they are literally transcendent. They are better than most of the stories they are… — Neil Gaiman
After the desperate years of their own war, after six years of repression inside Spain and six years of horror in exile, these people remain… — Martha Gellhorn

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