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Quotes About Transcendence

To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious. There are far worse things awaiting man than death.
~ Garrett Fort
Mindset of the man too busy: I am too busy BEING God to become LIKE God.
~ Mark Buchanan
If man can fly, it won't be something extraordinary! But if man can become immortal, now that will be extraordinary!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Man will always remain an unsuccessful creature till he stops being a mortal being!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Man will rise, if God by exception lends him a hand; he will rise by abandoning and renouncing his own means, and letting himselfbe raised and uplifted by purely celestial means.
~ Michel de Montaigne
Though a child of man knows time, life itself is eternal.
~ Miyuki Miyabe
A God-intoxicated man. [Ger., Gott-trunkener Mensch.]
~ Novalis
Man lives in time but his life transcends time.
~ R.J. Rushdoony
There is nothing ugly about death; but man, out of his fear, has made even the word, death ugly and unutterable. People don't like to talk about it. They won't even listen to the word death.
~ Rajneesh
The consciousness in each man is a sliding scale, which identifies him now with the First Cause, and now with the flesh of his body; life above life, in infinite degrees.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
But if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars. The rays that come from those heavenly worlds, will separate between him and vulgar things.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The soul lets no man go without some visitations and holy-days of a diviner presence.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
When a man dies he kicks the dust.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Flowers knew how to preach divinity before men knew how to dissect and botanize them.
~ Henry Norman Hudson
The idea of Jehovah was born here... Out of the rude elements of the insignificant thoughts thoughts that are in all men, they reared the transcendent conception of a God.
~ Herman Melville
There must be some part of Man that is more than his daily round. Some part of him that will use his profit on a matter of no profit.
~ Jeanette Winterson
Man must do his part and detach himself from created things.
~ Johannes Tauler
Above the smoke and stir of this dim spot Which men call earth.
~ John Milton
The wisest men are wise to the full in death.
~ John Ruskin
A single moment of love is equal to the whole eternity of love.
~ Rajneesh
The faintness of the stars, the freshness of the morning, the dewdrop on the flower, speaks to me.
~ Chief Dan George
Death is the mother of beauty.
~ Denis Johnson
Reality is something you rise above.
~ Liza Minnelli
Ecstasy carries you completely outside your ego boundaries. In ecstasy you know yourself as cosmic ego, unbounded in time and space.
~ Deepak Chopra