Frederick Henry Hedge Quotes

United States, Minister
December 12, 1805 – August, 21, 1890.

Frederic Henry Hedge (December 12, 1805 – August 21, 1890) was a New England Unitarian minister and Transcendentalist. He was a founder of the Transcendental Club, originally called Hedge's Club, and active in the development of Transcendentalism. He was one of the foremost scholars of German literature in the United States.

Also known as Clergyman

No form of Christianity is absolutely and only true.

Frederick Henry Hedge
- True
And I seemed to discern a power and meaning in the old, which the more impassioned would not allow.

Frederick Henry Hedge
- Power

Dreaming is an act of pure imagination, attesting in all men a creative power, which if it were available in waking, would make every man a Dante or Shakespeare.

Frederick Henry Hedge
- Men
- Power
- Imagination
Every man is his own ancestor, and every man is his own heir. He devises his own future, and he inherits his own past.

Frederick Henry Hedge
- Future
- Past