The Transcendentalist Quotes

“Do not cumber yourself with fruitless pains to mend and remedy remote effects; let the soul be erect, and all things will go well.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Transcendentalist illustrated

“They are lonely; the spirit of their writing and conversation is lonely; they repel influences; they shun general society; they incline to shut themselves in their chamber in the house, to live in the country rather than in the town, and to find their tasks and amusements in solitude.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Transcendentalist

“Nature is transcendental, exists primarily, necessarily, ever works and advances, yet takes no thought for the morrow.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Transcendentalist

“You think me the child of my circumstances: I make my circumstance.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Transcendentalist