Associations to the word «Transcendentalist»

Wiktionary

TRANSCENDENTALIST, noun. One who believes in transcendentalism.
TRANSCENDENTALIST, noun. A group of philosophers who assert that true knowledge is obtained by faculties of the mind that transcend sensory experience; those who exalt intuition above empirical knowledge and ordinary mentation. Used in modern times of some post-Kantian German philosophers, and of the school of Emerson.

Dictionary definition

TRANSCENDENTALIST, noun. Advocate of transcendentalism.

Wise words

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do, as well as talk, and to make our words and actions all of a color.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca