What the first philosopher taught the last will have to repeat. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There are nowadays professors of philosophy, but not philosophers — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Mathematics should be mixed not only with physics but with ethics. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Poetry implies the whole truth. Philosophy expresses a particle of it. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Poetry implies the whole truth, philosophy expresses only a particle of it. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The poet uses the results of science and philosophy, and generalizes their widest deductions. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Philosophy, having crept clinging to the rocks so far, puts out its feelers many ways in vain. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing of the origin and destiny of cats? — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit it and read it are old women… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The savage lives simply through ignorance and idleness or laziness, but the philosopher lives simply through wisdom. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Every man will be a poet if he can; otherwise a philosopher or man of science. This proves the superiority of the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There never was and is not likely soon to be a nation of philosophers, nor am I certain it is desirable that… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, to life itself, than this incessant business.” — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The fact is, mental philosophy is very like Poverty, which, you know, begins at home; and indeed, when it goes abroad, it… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It would be no reproach to a philosopher, that he knew the future better than the past, or even than the present.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The ancient philosophers, Chinese, Hindu, Persian, and Greek, were a class than which none has been poorer in outward riches, none so… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
His style is eminently colloquial, and no wonder it is strange to meet with in a book. It is not literary or… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A farmer, a hunter, a soldier, a reporter, even a philosopher, may be daunted; but nothing can deter a poet, for he… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The golden mean in ethics, as in physics, is the centre of the system and that about which all revolve, and though… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
As for the tenets of the Brahmans, we are not so much concerned to know what doctrines they held, as that they… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The philosopher's conception of things will, above all, be truer than other men's, and his philosophy will subordinate all the circumstances of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It is desirable that a man be clad so simply that he can lay his hands on himself in the dark, and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
All the moral laws are readily translated into natural philosophy, for often we have only to restore the primitive meaning of thewords… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
When we want culture more than potatoes, and illumination more than sugar-plums, then the great resources of a world are taxed anddrawn… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
My desire for knowledge is intermittent; but my desire to bathe my head in atmospheres unknown to my feet is perennial and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
He is not a true man of science who does not bring some sympathy to his studies, and expect to learn something… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The true man of science will know nature better by his finer organization; he will smell, taste, see, hear, feel, better than… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Society is commonly too cheap. We meet at very short intervals, not having had time to acquire any new value for each… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“I have read in a Hindoo book, that "there was a king's son, who, being expelled in infancy from his native city,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Most men appear never to have considered what a house is, and are actually though needlessly poor all their lives because they… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Let us settle ourselves, and work and wedge our feet downward through the mud and slush of opinion, and prejudice, and tradition,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“My desire for knowledge is intermittent, but my desire to bathe my head in atmospheres unknown to my feet is perennial and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“To a philosopher all news is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea.” — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Especially the transcendental philosophy needs the leaven of humor to render it light and digestible. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If ever I did a man any goodof course it was something exceptional and insignificant compared with the good or evil which I am… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Men say they know many things; But lo! they have taken wings, — The arts and sciences, And a thousand appliances; The wind that… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or back gammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with right and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“This spending of the best part of one's life earning money in order to enjoy a questionable liberty during the least valuable part of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
As for doing good; that is one of the professions which is full. Moreover I have tried it fairly and, strange as it may… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A traveler who looks at things with an impartial eye may see what the oldest inhabitant has not observed. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In proportion as our inward life fails, we go more constantly and desperately to the post office. You may depend on it, that the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The still youthful energies of the globe have only to be directed in their proper channel. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Concord's little arch does not span all our fate, nor is what transpires under it law for the universe. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
