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

To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding; one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience; ultimately one must have one's experiences in common.
Friedrich Nietzsche