So, I'm a Transcendentalist

"As Man Thinking , the theory of his office is contained. Him Nature solicits with all her placid, all her monitory pictures; him the pas instructs; him the futhre invites . Is not indeed every man a student, and do not all things, exist for the student's behoof? And, finally, is not the true scholar the only true master? But the old oracle said, 'All things have two handles: beware of the wrong one.' In life, too often, the scholar errs with mankind and forfeits his privilege. le us see him in his school, and consider him in reference to the main influences he recieves.

"The theory of books is nobel. The scholar of the first age received into him the world around; brooded thereon; gave it the new arrangement of his own mind, and uttered it again. It came into him life; it went out from him truth. It came to him short-lived actions; it went out from him immortal thoughts. It came to him business; it went from him poetry. It was dead fact; and now, it is quick thought. It can stand, and it can go. It now endures, it now flies, it now inspires. Precisely in proportion to the depth of mind from which it issued, so high does it soar, so long does it sing."
" The American Scholara Ralph Waldo Emerson