Pearl Jam's "Infallible" displays the transcendentalist value of free and critical thought. The line, "By thinking we're infallible, oh we are tempting fate instead," explains that if people do not question themselves and the authorities of any given subject, that they are giving up control of their lives in order to maintain a sense of safety. In Ralph Waldo Emerson's "Self Reliance", he says "We shall not always set so great a price on a few texts, on a few lives," this shows that transcendentalists value thinking for oneself, and critically analyzing information that is presented.
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