The line in life, nature, science, philosophy, religion constantly returns into itself. The opposite poles become one when the circle is completed. All truth revolves about one center. All is a manifestation of one law.
Sarah Alden Bradford Ripley (Unitarian, Transcendentalist)
Our life is frittered away by detail…Simplify. Simplify
Henry David Thoreau (Unitarian, Transcendentalist, philosopher, author)
We are workers in the world, immersed in its business, tried with its cares, perplexed by its doubts – we would still believe that there is always victory for true men and for true women. Nothing good comes to an untimely end. Although the saintly ones seem to go out in darkness, yet their lights burn and blaze forever.
Wisdom does not inspect, but beholds. We must look a long time before we can see.
#uu - Henry David Thoreau (Unitarian, Transcendentalist, naturalist, philosopher)
All religion and all ethics are summed up in justice.
Moncure Conway (Unitarian, Transcendentalist, minister, scholar, social reformer)
Let us live while we live, and snatch each fleeting moment of truth and love and beauty.
Sarah Alden Bradford Ripley (Unitarian, Transcendentalist)
My profession is to be always on the alert to find God in nature, to know his lurking-places, to attend all the oratorios, the opera, in nature.
Henry David Thoreau (Unitarian, Transcendentalist, naturalist, philosopher)
All religion and all ethics are summed up in justice
Moncure Conway (Unitarian, Transcendentalist, minister, scholar, social reformer)
Self-love, and love of others, are equally natural; and before reason is developed, and the proper spiritual life begins, sweet and beautiful childhood may bloom out and imparadise our mortal life.
Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, Guide to the Kindergarten and Intermediate Class (1860) (Unitarian, Transcendentalist, author, educator, reformer)
We are always either educating or hindering the development of our fellow creatures; we are always being uplifted or being dragged down by our fellow creatures. Education is always mutual.
Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, Lectures Delivered in Boston, 1872-1882 (Unitarian, Transcendentalist, author, educator, reformer)To Tumblr, Love Pixel Union