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The so-called Transcendentalists are not the only people who deal in Transcendentals. On the contrary, we seem to see that the Utilitarians,--the every-day world's people themselves, far transcend those inferior

The so-called Transcendentalists are not the only people who deal in Transcendentals. On the contrary, we seem to see that the Utilitarians,--the every-day world's people themselves, far transcend those inferior Transcendentalists by their own incomprehensible worldly maxims.

Herman Melville
People, World, Transcendentalism
Herman Melville (2017). “Pierre: Or, the Ambiguities”, p.182, W. W. Norton & Company

Everything may serve a lower as well as a higher use.

Henry David Thoreau
Use, May, Transcendentalism
Henry David Thoreau (2004). “Walden and Other Writings”, p.410, Bantam Classics

Every man is entitled to come to Cattle-Show, even a transcendentalist; and for my part I am more interested in the men than in the cattle.

Henry David Thoreau
Men, Transcendentalism, He Man
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1225, Delphi Classics

We do not enjoy poetry unless we know it to be poetry.

Henry David Thoreau
Transcendentalism, Enjoy, Knows
'Journal' 1 October 1856 (published 1903)

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