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The Tenets of
Transcendentalism
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“I learned this, at least, by my experiment; that if one advances
confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life
which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. He will put some things behind, will pass an invisible
boundary; new, universal, and more liberal laws will begin to establish
themselves around and within him; or the old laws will be expanded,
and interpreted in his favor in a more liberal sense, and he will live with
the license of a higher order of beings.”
~ Henry David Thoreau, Walden
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Nonconformity
“All persons ought to endeavor to follow what is right, and not what is
established.” - Aristotle
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Self-Reliance
“Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of our own mind.” –
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance
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Confidence
“Speak what you think now in hard words, and tomorrow speak what
tomorrow thinks in hard words again.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance
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Civil Disobedience
“I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in
order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in
reality expressing the highest respect for law.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Importance of Nature
“The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors, because the
whole world of nature is a metaphor of the human mind.” – Ralph
Waldo Emerson, Nature
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Intuition over Reason
“Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Simplify, Simplify, Simplify
“A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can
afford to let alone.” – Henry David Thoreau, Walden
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Tenets of Transcendentalism
Nonconformity
Self-Reliance
Confidence
Civil Disobedience
Importance of Nature
Intuition over Reason
Simplify, Simplify, Simplify