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 are now-a-days professors of philosophy but not philosophers.
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With all your science can you tell how it is, and whence it is, that Light comes into the soul?
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There is no remedy for love than to love more.
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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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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.
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This world is but a canvas to our imaginations.
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To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts; but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates.
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When any real progress is made, we unlearn and learn anew what we thought we knew before.
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We are paid for our suspicions by finding what we suspected.
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Every man is the builder of a temple, called his body, to the god he worships, after a style purely his own, nor can he get off by hammering marble instead. We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bones. Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man's features, any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them.
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The life which men praise and regard as successful is but one kind. Why should we exaggerate any one kind at the expense of the others?
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There are a thousand at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.
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What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing about the origin and destiny of cats?
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We feel at first as if some opportunities of kindness and sympathy were lost, but learn afterward that any pure grief is ample recompense for all. That is, if we are faithful; -- for a spent grief is but sympathy with the soul that disposes events, and is as natural as the resin of Arabian trees. -- Only nature has a right to grieve perpetually, for she only is innocent. Soon the ice will melt, and the blackbirds sing along the river which he frequented, as pleasantly as ever. The same everlasting serenity will appear in this face of God, and we will not be sorrowful, if he is not.