Transcendentalism Quotes

Very early, I knew that the only object in life was to grow.

To speak truly, few adult persons can see nature. Most persons do not see the sun. At least they hav...

None believeth in the soul of man, but only in some man or person old and departed. Ah me! no man go...

Another point of economy is to look for seed of the same kind as you sow, and not to hope to buy one...

Let me admonish you, first of all, to go alone; to refuse the good models, even those most sacred in...

The poet is the sayer, the namer, and represents beauty. He is a sovereign, and stands on the centre...

Place yourself in the middle of the stream of power and wisdom which animates all whom it floats, an...

They should own who can administer, not they who hoard and conceal; not they who, the greater propri...

That law of nature whereby everything climbs to higher platforms, and bodily vigor becomes mental an...

The virtues are economists, but some of the vices are also...Pride is handsome, economical; pride er...

Money is representative, and follows the nature and fortunes of the owner...The farmer is covetous o...

Does not… the ear of Handel predict the witchcraft of harmonic sound?

I swear the earth shall surely be complete to him or her who shall be complete,The earth remains jag...

All unrest is but the struggle of the soul to reassure herself of her inborn immortality.

I have heard of a man lost in the woods and dying of famine and exhaustion at the foot of a tree, wh...

What is a course of history, or philosophy, or poetry, no matter how well selected, or the best soci...

The troubles of modern life come from being divorced from nature.