Transcendentalism Quotes

I am, indeed, an absolute materialist so far as actual belief goes; with not a shred of credence in any form of supernaturalism-religion, spiritualism, transcendentalism, metempsychosis, or immortality. (H. P. Lovecraft)
Even as empiricism is winning the mind, transcendentalism continues to win the heart. View quote
E. O. Wilson
Love when felt at all deeply has an element of transcendentalism in it, which makes it the most natural thing in the world for the two lovers - even though drawn together by a passing sex-attraction - to swear eternal troth to each other; but there is something quite diabolic and mephistophelean in the practice of the Law, which creeping up behind, as it were, at this critical moment, and overhearing the two thus pledging themselves, claps its book together with a triumphant bang, and exclaims: "There now you are married and done for, for the rest of your natural lives." View quote
Edward Carpenter
Like Transcendentalism, Revel's revolution would encompass "the liberation of the creative personality and the awakening of personal initiative" as opposed to the closed horizons of more repressive societies. View quote
Marilyn Ferguson
The residue of religion in my work appears as a modified transcendentalism, and the positivist scientific side of my thought appears as concreteness and realism. The effort to reconcile the two is at the core of all my poetry. View quote
Louis Dudek