“It is not simply a matter of rebalancing the books between different forms of power but of recognizing the historical achievement of a kind of power that claims transcendence over all other forms of power.”
“The transcendence of the deity is a conclusion of Greek philosophy.”
“He interprets the moment of suicidal hesitation as a Keatsian yearning for transcendence through death.”
“Mayo was inspired by Emerson's writings, but distinguished his beliefs from those aspects of transcendentalist philosophy which his audience found offensive.”
“There was in his character, perhaps, something of the visionary and the transcendentalist.”
“I am, moreover, to be perfectly frank, a transcendentalist on the subject of marriage.”
“In science fiction there can be no inexplicable marvels, no transcendences, no devils or demons.”
“We respond to the luminous revelations of small transcendences rather than the ungraspable miracles of the universe or the cosmos.”
“And even if this is only wishful thinking, only a hope, we must recall that hope is one of those small transcendences of brute necessity that imbue life with meaning.”