#transcend

Science has a simple faith, which transcends utility. It is the faith that it is the privilege of man to learn to understand, and that this is his mission. ↗

— Vannevar Bush

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People wouldn't even go into science unless there was something much bigger to be discovered, something that is transcendent. ↗

— David Eagleman

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Reagan didn't socialize with the press. He spent his evenings with Nancy, watching TV with dinner trays. But he knew that to transcend, you can't condescend. ↗

— Maureen Dowd

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Styx has their own style of music, and I think that's justifiable, the same way that Asia and Yes have had - Yes particularly has a unique style that seems to have transcended all styles of music for 43 years. ↗

— Geoff Downes

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Emerson was the chief figure in the American transcendental movement, a fact that complicates all accounts of him in literary or cultural history. ↗

— Howard Mumford Jones

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Contemporary thinkers would say that man is continuously transcending himself. ↗

— Gabriel Marcel

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Just what future the Designer of the universe has provided for the souls of men I do not know, I cannot prove. But I find that the whole order of Nature confirms my confidence that, if it is not like our noblest hopes and dreams, it will transcend them. ↗

— Henry Norris Russell

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Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#transcendentalists #men

Consciousness is endless, from one incarnation to the next. It simply will and does manifest in other places and times, regardless of what becomes of the human race. ↗

— Zeena Schreck

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Stepping out of one’s world or out of one’s habitual self is a transcendental experience. [...] If we seek transcendence, we may have many visions, but we will surely end where we started. If we opt for growth, we may have our moments of transcendence, but they will be peak experiences along the steady road to a richer and more secure self. (32-33) ↗

— Alexander Lowen

#new-experience #transcendance #experience