fuck yeah, transcendentalism

May 15

sleepingsunchild:

drew by Saria Dy on Flickr.

drew by Saria Dy on Flickr.

May 9

“On reading: “To read well, that is, to read books in a true spirit, is a noble exercise, and one that will task the reader more than any exercise which the customs of the day esteem. It requires a training such as the athletes underwent, the steady intention almost of the whole life to this object. Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.”

This Western Feeling: Henry David Thoreau (pg. 66 in “Walden”)

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May 8

“I quarrel not with far-off foes, but with those who, near at home, cooperate with, and do the bidding of those far away, and without whom the latter would be harmless.” Henry David Thoreau in “Civil Disobedience”.

The relevancy is astounding. (via godsbartab)

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Henry David Thoreau

“Rescue the drowning and tie your shoe strings.” Henry David Thoreau (via markmoney)

“A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict everything you said to-day—‘Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood’—Is it so bad then to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.”

amandagendron: thought, reason, spirit

-Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self Reliance

“If the single man plants himself indomitably on his instincts, and there
abide, the huge world will come round to him. Patience, —patience,” Emerson (via alittleunbroken)

Apr 19

“Harmony exists in difference no less than in likeness, if only the same keynote governs both parts.” Margaret Fuller (Unitarian, Transcendentalist, reformer, author)

laskaris:

o capitan capitan

Walt Whitman