Transcendent Quotes

164 Transcendent quotes by 145 unique authors

Religion can make it worse. Are you supposing that if people were encouraged to believe in a transcendent reality, and to be encouraged by grand… — Mary Douglas
Remarkable contributions are typically spawned by a passionate commitment to transcendent values such as beauty, truth, wisdom, justice, charity, fidelity, joy, courage and honor. — Gary Hamel
Honestly, I don't believe in menswear. I focus on what pieces are most timeless, transcendent, match my lifestyle, remain remarkable, and command intriguing attention across… — Janelle Monae
There's no hierarchy in suffering. I think songs that are transcendent are the ones where everyone can feel something from it, you know? — Meshell Ndegeocello
I'm always trying to reach a transcendent point, a romantic point, but reach it in a really unconventional way, a really profane way. To get… — Chuck Palahniuk
We are biological creatures. We are born, we live, we die. There is no transcendent purpose to existence. At best we are creatures of reason,… — Jonathan Sacks
Winning the Pritzker assures a flood of work in one's seventies and eighties, jobs necessarily carried out by assistants as the demands of modern-day cultural… — Martin Filler
The alarm in the morning? Well, I have an old tape of Carlo Maria Giulini conducting the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra in a perfectly transcendent version… — Stephen Fry
Beware the irrational, however seductive. Shun the 'transcendent' and all who invite you to subordinate or annihilate yourself. Distrust compassion; prefer dignity for yourself and… — Christopher Hitchens
This is a valley of ashes--a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens; where ashes take the forms… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Traditionally, I have responded to the transcendent mystics of all religions. I have always responded with breathless excitement to anyone who has ever said that… — Elizabeth Gilbert
But whenever I meet dynamic, nonretarded Americans, I notice that they all seem to share a single unifying characteristic: the inability to experience the kind… — Chuck Klosterman
I'm still agnostic. But in the words of Elton Richards, I'm now a reverant agnostic. Which isn't an oxymoron, I swear. I now believe that… — A. J. Jacobs
There we will, I pray, remain and learn and grow until the time when we will rise together to the ultimate heights, changing in appearance… — Richard Matheson
We were made to enjoy music, to enjoy beautiful sunsets, to enjoy looking at the billows of the sea and to be thrilled with a… — Desmond Tutu
The fragility of love is what is most at stake here—humanity's most crucial three-word avowal is often uttered only to find itself suddenly embarrassing or… — Christopher Hitchens
People of our time are losing the power of celebration. Instead of celebrating we seek to be amused or entertained. Celebration is an active state,… — Abraham Joshua Heschel
How does the ordinary person come to the transcendent? For a start, I would say, study poetry. Learn how to read a poem. You need… — Joseph Campbell
[Mindfulness] is not concerned with anything transcendent or divine. It serves as an antidote to theism, a cure for sentimental piety, a scalpel for excising… — Stephen Batchelor
You aren't a bit romantic, are you?" he asked, amused. She sat back and stared at him. She was beginning to think that Neal required… — Tamora Pierce
Behind the hieroglyphic streets there would either be a transcendent meaning, or only the earth. — Thomas Pynchon
If the ego is not regularly and repeatedly dissolved in the unbounded hyperspace of the Transcendent Other, there will always be slow drift away from… — Terence McKenna
In the end, the bedrock of existence is not made up of the family, or work, or what others say or think of you, but… — Nicolas Bouvier
I'm very nearly drunk enough to be transcendent," Calla said after a space. She was not the only psychic drinking, but she was the closest… — Maggie Stiefvater
The most fundamental liberal failure of the current era: the failure to embrace a moral vision of America based on the transcendent faith that human… — Bill Moyers

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