Transcendentalist

The person who adopts “any presentiment, any extravagance as most in nature,” is not commonly called a Transcendentalist, but is known colloquially as a “crank.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson Holmes, Oliver W 1891

A Transcendentalist is a Dukhobortsi with a college education.

Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Philosophers, Volume 8 Elbert Hubbard 1885

The person who adopts "any presentiment, any extravagance as most in nature," is not commonly called a Transcendentalist, but is known colloquially as a "crank."

Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851

In short, there was a kind of "Transcendentalist" dilettanteism, which betrayed itself by a phraseology as distinctive as that of the Della Cruscans of an earlier time.

Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851

In reading the following description of the "intelligent and religious persons" who belonged to the "Transcendentalist" communion, the reader must remember that it is Emerson who draws the portrait, -- a friend and not a scoffer: --

Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851

It is that project which I mentioned to you in a letter by Mr. Barnard, ” a book to be called The Transcendentalist, or The Spiritual Inquirer, or the like, and of which F.H. H.dge* was to be editor.

The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol. I Carlyle, Thomas 1883

Nor is Chomsky compelled, as I often am, to reach back to the Transcendentalist purity of the great Thoreau, who withheld his taxes and went to jail during the war with Mexico and roared in protest, in the Tea Party spirit, "Why the United States Government never performed an act of justice in its life!"

Christopher Lydon: Noam Chomsky: the American Socrates on an Upbeat (AUDIO) Christopher Lydon 2010

Transcendentalist philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson also spoke quite highly of the ethical philosophy of Jesus Christ.

Jesus Christ: A Heretical Appreciation | Heretical Ideas Magazine 2009

At the University of New Mexico Art Museum (until December 18), "To Form From Air" looks at "Music and the Art of Raymond Jonson," a central figure in the Transcendentalist group.

Peter Frank: Blague d'Art: Moving Pictures, Frozen Music Peter Frank 2010

Nor is Chomsky compelled, as I often am, to reach back to the Transcendentalist purity of the great Thoreau, who withheld his taxes and went to jail during the war with Mexico and roared in protest, in the Tea Party spirit, "Why the United States Government never performed an act of justice in its life!"

Christopher Lydon: Noam Chomsky: the American Socrates on an Upbeat (AUDIO) Christopher Lydon 2010