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Savage Quotes by Henry David Thoreau
- The savage lives simply through ignorance and idleness or laziness, but the philosopher lives simply through wisdom.
- From my experience with wild apples, I can understand that there may be reason for a savage's preferring many kinds of food which the civilized…
- As I came home through the woods with my string of fish, trailing my pole, it being now quite dark, I caught a glimpse of…
- The savage in man is never quite eradicated.
- The civilized man is a more experienced and wiser savage.
- I found in myself, and still find, an instinct toward a higher, or, as it is named, spiritual life, as do most men, and another…
More Savage Quotes
- It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between. — Diane Ackerman
- Liberal capitalism is not at all the Good of humanity. Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism. — Alain Badiou
- I have a huge and savage conscience that won't let me get away with things. — Octavia Butler
- We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to reach its fruit; but the same… — William Ellery Channing
- Captive Greece took captive her savage conqueror. — Horace
- But the effort, the effort! And as the marrow is eaten out of a man's bones and the soul out of his… — D. H. Lawrence
- May we not suspect that the vague but very real fears of children, which are quite independent of experience, are the inherited… — Charles Darwin
- Forgiveness is better than revenge, for forgiveness is the sign of a gentle nature, but revenge is the sign of a savage… — Jerome Isaac Friedman
- The vast majority of the race whether savage or civilized, are secretly kind at heart and shrink from inflicting pain, but in… — Mark Twain
- Beneath the dingy uniformity of international fashions in dress, man remains what he has always been; a splendid fighting animal, a self-sacrificing… — William Ralph Inge
- Self-denial is simply a method by which arrests his progress, and self-sacrifice a survival of the mutilation of the savage. — Oscar Wilde
- Ideas, unlike solid structures, do not perish. They remain immortal, immaterial and everywhere, like all Divine things. Ideas are a golden, savage… — Alan Moore