Jack Sandomierski
Eng 2
Mr.kereny
9 December 2014 Transcendentalists table
I became a transparent eyeball I am nothing I see all the currents of the universal being circulate through me I am a parcel of god (nature 391) Emerson believes that individuals in nature share a common purpose with god ,i.e,the”over-soul”
In the woods we return to reasons and faith(nature 390) When the individual is removed from the stresses of everyday life ,he is able to focuses on true understanding of himself
There is a time in every man’s education when he arrives at the convection envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide’
(from self-reliance 393) Emerson means that if you envy someone or something you are being
“a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds (from self-reliance 394) Don’t let The little things bother you in life
If we do not get out sleepers and forge rails and devote days and nights to the work but go to tinkering upon our lives to improve them who will build the railroads
(From Walden’411) I think thoreau was trying to say Don’t let life pass you by go out and live the way you choose
I think the richest vein is somewhere hereabouts so by the dividing rod and thin rising vapors I judge and here I will begin to mine (From Walden’411) I think thoreau was trying to say Don’t trust what you hear go with your gut
That government is best witch governs the least ( from civil disobedience 416) I think thoreau was trying to say a minimal government is the best
The standing army is only an arm of a standing government
( from civil disobedience 416) I think thoreau was trying to say he doesn’t want a standing army no less a government Transindentelism-is an American philosophy developed most famously by Emerson and Thoreau witch arrives that the individual is the most powerful force on earth it also holds that man god and nature are