Song Transcendentalism Quotes & Sayings

The most important misunderstanding seems to me to lie in a confusion between the human necessities which I consider part of human nature, and the human necessities as they appear as
drives, needs, passions, etc., in any given historical period. — Erich Fromm

I don't do a film unless it has a sword in it. And if it doesn't have a sword in it, I insist that they have one in the same room to keep me comfortable. — Orlando Bloom

In another letter he says: A man may be constitutionally meek as the lamb, constitutionally kind as the spaniel, constitutionally cheerful as the lark, and constitutionally modest as the owl; but these things are not sanctification. No sweet, humble, heavenly tempers, no sanctifying graces, are found but from the cross. — J.C. Ryle

There is something talismanic about familiar words. — Marcel Theroux

Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be. — Albert Einstein

We haven't remained idle, twiddling our thumbs while you were off having a good time. — V.C. Andrews

Life was precious. Life was all that mattered. Yet it meant nothing if you weren't living as you wanted. — Edward Bunker

A man is honorable in proportion to the personal risks he takes for his opinion - in other words, the amount of downside he is exposed to. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The folk of Hell-Knows-Where by default still thought of themselves as Americans. — Stephen Baxter

Even from the darkest night songs of beauty can be born. — Mary Anne Radmacher

And yet, because I am without a doubt mortal, I have the troubling desire to do good, to please, to communicate my warmth, to still be very beautiful sometimes to inspire a taste for beauty. I know that these times are not fertile in grace ... I am afraid tomorrow the grace of woman ... may be recognized as a public utility & be socialized to the point of becoming a banal article, a bazaar object like in '93 & that one will find types of tender or amusing women with millions of copies like the creations of the big ... fashion stores where it is always the same thing. I want to affirm the superiority of the god over that of the organizer of concerts for the poor. — Rachilde

I mean, if a person acts irresponsibly in his own life, he will pay the consequences. And it's not so much divine retribution as it's built into the law of nature. — Pat Robertson