George Ripley Quotes

United States, Activist
October 3, 1802 – July, 4, 1880.

George Ripley (October 3, 1802 – July 4, 1880) was an American social reformer, Unitarian minister, and journalist associated with Transcendentalism. He was the founder of the short-lived Utopian community Brook Farm in West Roxbury, Massachusetts.

Also known as Journalist

Then hast our the Red Stone perfect with less labour, expense of time and costs, for the which ever thank God.

George Ripley
- Time
- God
- Perfect
But in this Second Work if thou extract our Air and our Fire with the phlegm water, they will the more naturally and easily be drawn out of their infernal prison, and with less losse of their Spirits, than by the former way before described.

George Ripley
- Work
- Water
- Air

We shall suffer no attachment to literature, no taste for abstract discussion, no love of purely intellectual theories, to seduce us from our devotion to the cause of the oppressed, the down trodden, the insulted and injured masses of our fellow men.

George Ripley
- Men
- Literature
Also there is a similitude of a Trinity shining in the body, soul and spirit.

George Ripley
- Soul
The body is the substance of the stone.

George Ripley
To that movement, consecrated by religious principle, sustained by an awful sense of justice, and cheered by the brightest hopes of future good, all our powers, talents, and attainments are devoted.

George Ripley
- Good
- Future
- Justice
If any imagine from the literary tone of the preceding remarks that we are indifferent to the radical movement for the benefit of the masses which is the crowning glory of the nineteenth century, they will soon discover their egregious mistake.

George Ripley
- Mistake
This is our mercury, our lunary, but whosoever thinks of any other water besides this, is ignorant and foolish, never attaining to the desired effects.

George Ripley
- Water