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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What men call social virtue, good fellowship, is commonly but the virtue of pigs in a litter, which lie close together to keep each other warm
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What you get by achieving your goals is to as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
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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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If an injustice requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law. Let your life be a counter-friction to stop the government machine.
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Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so.
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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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Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured and far away. It is not important that he should mature as soon as an apple tree or an oak.
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Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.
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I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartanlike as to put to rout all that was not life.
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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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When any real progress is made, we unlearn and learn anew what we thought we knew before.
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There are now-a-days professors of philosophy but not philosophers.
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We were born to succeed, not to fail.