Top 25 Transcendentalism Quotes of 29

The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do.

The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do.

Essence, Deep Thought, Transcendentalism

Harvard Business Review, John P. Kotter, Michael Porter, Elizabeth Olmsted Teisberg (2015). “Leadership, Strategy, and Innovation: Health Care Collection (8 Items)”, p.1721, Harvard Business Review Press

As to the mental essence, we find it in infants devoid of every mental form.

Avicenna

Essence, Transcendentalism, Form

The essence of a democracy is a free electorate.

Arlen Specter

Essence, Democracy, Transcendentalism

There is an optical illusion about every person we meet.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Optical Illusions, Transcendentalism, Illusion

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco, Joel Myerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.229, Harvard University Press

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

Henry David Thoreau

Time, Memories, Transcendentalism

'Walden' (1854) 'Economy'

The essence of good government is trust.

Kathleen Sebelius

Government, Essence, Transcendentalism

Cruel persecutions and intolerance are not accidents, but grow out of the very essence of religion, namely, its absolute claims.

Morris Raphael Cohen

Essence, Religion, Transcendentalism

In wildness is the preservation of the world.

Henry David Thoreau

Camping, World, Transcendentalism

"Walking" (1862)

Painting is the representation of visible forms. The essence of realism is its negation of the ideal.

Gustave Courbet

Artist, Essence, Transcendentalism

You can never really live anyone else's life, not even your child's. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you've become yourself.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Children, Transcendentalism, Influence

The uncertainty of the danger belongs to the essence of terrorism.

Jurgen Habermas

Essence, Transcendentalism, Terrorism

The essence of government is control, or the attempt to control.

Benjamin Tucker

Government, Essence, Transcendentalism

Benjamin Ricketson Tucker (1926). “Individual liberty: selections from the writings of Benjamin R. Tucker”

I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life.

Henry David Thoreau

Dead Poets Society, Transcendentalism, Wilderness

"Walden: Or, Life in the Woods".

Advertising is the very essence of democracy.

Anton Chekhov

Essence, Democracy, Transcendentalism

Canada is the essence of not being. Not English, not American, it is the mathematic of not being. And a subtle flavour - we're more like celery as a flavour.

Mike Myers

Essence, Canada, Transcendentalism

"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

I heartily accept the motto, "That government is best which governs least"; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically.

Henry David Thoreau

Government, Transcendentalism, Anarchist

Civil Disobedience (1849) See Ralph Waldo Emerson 29; O'Sullivan 1; Shipley 1

Meaning is what essence becomes when it is divorced from the object of reference and wedded to the word.

Willard Van Orman Quine

Essence, Transcendentalism, Divorced

Willard Van Orman Quine, Roger F. Gibson (2004). “Quintessence: Basic Readings from the Philosophy of W.V. Quine”, p.33, Harvard University Press

I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practice resignation, unless it was quite necessary.

Henry David Thoreau

Practice, Wish, Transcendentalism

Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.3143, Delphi Classics

Surely, we are provided with senses as well fitted to penetrate the spaces of the real, the substantial, the eternal, as these outward are to penetrate the material universe. Veias, Menu, Zoroaster, Socrates, Christ, Shakespeare, Swedenborg,--these are some of our astronomers.

Henry David Thoreau

Real, Space, Transcendentalism

Henry David Thoreau (2013). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.307, Courier Corporation