Transcendent Quotes

Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world.
John Milton

Life, Change, Experience

Worship is transcendent wonder.
Thomas Carlyle

Wonder, Worship

I'm always trying to reach a transcendent point, a romantic point, but reach it in a really unconventional way, a really profane way. To get to that romantic, touching, heartbreaking place, but through a lot of acts of profanity.
Chuck Palahniuk

Romantic, Through, Trying

We are biological creatures. We are born, we live, we die. There is no transcendent purpose to existence. At best we are creatures of reason, and by using reason we can cure ourselves of emotional excess. Purged of both hope and fear, we find courage in the face of helplessness, insignificance and uncertainty.
Jonathan Sacks

Best, Hope, Courage

I've seen the greatest actors in the world, transcendent talents, who can't find a home.
Laura Linney

Home, Greatest, Find

'Normal Heart' was my most transcendent moment as an actor.
Ellen Barkin

Heart, Moment, Actor

Religion can make it worse. Are you supposing that if people were encouraged to believe in a transcendent reality, and to be encouraged by grand rituals and music and preaching, to love their neighbors, then they would put jealousy and frustration aside?
Mary Douglas

Love, Music, Religion

David Ortiz is a genius. He's incredible to watch. Over and over, he hits home runs that are simply transcendent.
Juliana Hatfield

Home, Genius, Simply

The collective experience of watching a great film together in a room is a transcendent moment that will never die.
Gael Garcia Bernal

Great, Experience, Together

Being in love is the only transcendent experience.
Armistead Maupin

Love, Experience

I'm inspired by the words: 'electrifying', 'epic', 'minimalistic', 'transcendent', 'timeless' and 'rock n' roll.'
Janelle Monae

Rock, Words, Inspired

After the desperate years of their own war, after six years of repression inside Spain and six years of horror in exile, these people remain intact in spirit. They are armed with a transcendent faith; they have never won, and yet they have never accepted defeat.
Martha Gellhorn

Faith, War, After

Every one who has a heart, however ignorant of architecture he may be, feels the transcendent beauty and poetry of the mediaeval churches.
Goldwin Smith

Beauty, Poetry, Heart

There's no hierarchy in suffering. I think songs that are transcendent are the ones where everyone can feel something from it, you know?
Meshell Ndegeocello

Suffering, Everyone, Songs

Honestly, I don't believe in menswear. I focus on what pieces are most timeless, transcendent, match my lifestyle, remain remarkable, and command intriguing attention across the room at an art gallery.
Janelle Monae

Art, Focus, Attention

People wouldn't even go into science unless there was something much bigger to be discovered, something that is transcendent.
David Eagleman

Science, Unless, Bigger

Despite fearful rhetoric to the contrary, terrorism is not a transcendent threat. A terrorist attack cannot possibly destroy our country's way of life; it's only our reaction to that attack that can do that kind of damage.
Bruce Schneier

Life, Country, Cannot

But I think once the word gets out that the movie is funny - funny is transcendent - it will traverse all demographic barriers if people embrace it as a funny movie.
Thomas Haden Church

Funny, Once, Word

Humanity could only have survived and flourished if it held social and personal values that transcended the urges of the individual, embodying selfish desires - and these stem from the sense of a transcendent good.
Arthur Peacocke

Good, Selfish, Humanity

Psychologically experienced consciousness is therefore no longer pure consciousness; construed Objectively in this way, consciousness itself becomes something transcendent, becomes an event in that spatial world which appears, by virtue of consciousness, to be transcendent.
Edmund Husserl

Longer, Virtue, Pure

We all look to have transcendent experiences that lift us out of the everyday, and fear is a good one. But, I think it's the same reason why people want to laugh their heads off.
Adam Arkin

Good, Fear, Laugh

Religion is one dimension of culture, a transcendent element of it.
Francis Arinze

Religion, Culture, Dimension

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