LITERATURE QUESTIONS
TRANSCENDENTALISM LITERATURE
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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“Nothing is at least sacred but the integrity of your mind.”
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“The virtue in most request is conformity.”
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“With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do.”
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“To be great is to be misunderstood.”
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Detailed explanation-1: -“It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.” “Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.”
Detailed explanation-2: -Which of these quotations reflects a key idea of Transcendentalism? “Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind."
Detailed explanation-3: -Transcendentalism is a philosophy that began in the mid-19th century and whose founding members included Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau. It centers around the belief that spirituality cannot be achieved through reason and rationalism, but instead through self-reflection and intuition.
Detailed explanation-4: -It asks that we be Self-Sufficient and not Co-Dependent.