Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreauwas an American essayist, poet, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, and historian. A leading transcendentalist, Thoreau is best known for his book Walden, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay Resistance to Civil Government, an argument for disobedience to an unjust state...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth12 July 1817
CountryUnited States of America
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There is no remedy for love than to love more.
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What's the use of a fine house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
ditch education
What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
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Time is but the stream I go fishing in. I drink at it, but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. It's thin current slides away, but eternity remains.
knowledge true
To know that we know what we know, and that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.
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We should distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
canvas imagination
This world is but a canvas to our imaginations.
according love merely subtle wisdom
To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts; but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates.
light science
With all your science can you tell how it is, and whence it is, that Light comes into the soul?
born inherit property rather
To inherit property is not to be born - is to be stillborn, rather
nature men no-friends
Nature must be viewed humanly to be viewed at all; that is, her scenes must be associated with humane affections, such as are associated with one's native place. She is most significant to a lover. A lover of Nature is preeminently a lover of man. If I have no friend, what is Nature to me? She ceases to be morally significant. . .
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All perception of truth is the detection of an analogy.
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When our life ceases to be inward and private, conversation degenerates into mere gossip.
loss men use
The ears were made, not for such trivial uses as men are wont to suppose, but to hear celestial sounds.