It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
Ralph Waldo EmersonTags: inspirational philosophy social-commentary self-reliance nonfiction essay lecture transcendentalism
This whole earth in which we inhabit is but a point is space.
Henry David ThoreauTags: transcendentalism
Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
Ralph Waldo EmersonTags: transcendentalism transcendentalists
Science does not know its debt to imagination.
Ralph Waldo EmersonTags: transcendentalism
Not for nothing one face, one character, one fact makes much impression on him, and another none.
Ralph Waldo EmersonTags: emerson transcendentalism
I have heard of a man lost in the woods and dying of famine and exhaustion at the foot of a tree, whose loneliness was relieved by the grotesque visions with which, owing to bodily weakness, his diseased imagination surrounded him, and which he believed to be real. So also, owing to bodily and mental health and strength, we may be continually cheered by a like but more normal and natural society, and come to know that we are never alone.
Henry David ThoreauTags: community transcendentalism
Does not… the ear of Handel predict the witchcraft of harmonic sound?
Ralph Waldo EmersonTags: music evolution transcendentalism
Men do what is called a good action, as some piece of courage or charity, much as they would pay a fine in expiation of daily non-appearance on parade. Their works are done as an apology or extenuation of their living in the world. I do not wish to expiate, but to live. My life is not an apology, but a life.
Ralph Waldo EmersonTags: essay transcendentalism
The poet is the sayer, the namer, and represents beauty. He is a sovereign, and stands on the centre. For the world is not painted, or adorned, but is from the beginning beautiful; and God has not made some beautiful things, but Beauty is the creator of the universe. Therefore the poet is not any permissive potentate, but is emperor in his own right. Criticism is infested with a cant of materialism, which assumes that manual skill and activity is the first merit of all men, and disparages such as say and do not, overlooking the fact, that some men, namely, poets, are natural sayers, sent into the world to the end of expression, and confounds them with those whose province is action, but who quit it to imitate the sayers. The poet does not wait for the hero or the sage, but, as they act and think primarily, so he writes primarily what will and must be spoken, reckoning the others, though primaries also, yet, in respect to him, secondaries and servants; as sitters or models in the studio of a painter, or as assistants who bring building materials to an architect.
Ralph Waldo EmersonTags: poetry transcendentalism neoplatonism
[Transcendentalism maintains] that man has ideas, that come not through the five sense, or the powers of reasoning; but are either the result of direct revelation from God, his immediate inspiration, or his immanent presence in the spiritual world.
Charles Mayo EllisTags: religion transcendentalism unitarianism
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