Transcendentalists believe the mind is where ideas are formed. The transcendentalist ideas of God, man, and the universe were not all original, but were a combination of other philosophies and religions. Immanuel Kant was one of the major Transcendentalists of his time. Transcendentalists believe that one really only knows personal experiences, and that one can not know the universe which exists.
Transcendentalists think there is a dimension of depth in everything that exists.
Some transcendentalists say the world has no beginning in time, everything takes place according to the laws of nature. These ideas come from the Romantic traditions which originated in England. Transcendentalists came to the conclusion that good and evil were things only man could control. Their belief of man is that man is part of the universe of objects and things. His knowledge is confined to ideas.