Henry David Thoreau — Philosophical Quotes

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Henry David Thoreau Quotes

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Henry David Thoreau

Writer, Philosopher

Philosophical

“Talk of mysteries! — Think of our life in nature, — daily to be shown matter, to come in contact with it, — rocks, trees, wind on our cheeks! The solid earth! The actual world! The common sense! Contact! Contact! Who are we? Where are we?”

Thinking Rocks Wind

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Henry David Thoreau

Writer, Philosopher

Philosophical

“How novel and original must be each new mans view of the universe - for though the world is so old - and so many books have been written - each object appears wholly undescribed to our experience - each field of thought wholly unexplored - the whole world is an America - a New World.”

Book America Views

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Philosophical

“The tree of Knowledge is a Tree of Knowledge of good and evil.”

Evil Tree

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Philosophical

“Men are probably nearer the essential truth in their superstitions than in their science.”

Men Truth

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“Surely, we are provided with senses as well fitted to penetrate the spaces of the real, the substantial, the eternal, as these outward are to penetrate the material universe. Veias, Menu, Zoroaster, Socrates, Christ, Shakespeare, Swedenborg,--these are some of our astronomers.”

Real Space Transcendentalism

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Philosophical

“How can we remember our ignorance, which our growth requires, when we are using our knowledge all the time?”

Remember Ignorance Growth

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Philosophical

“I turned my face more exclusively than ever to the woods, where I was better known.”

Faces Tree

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Philosophical

“Wherever men have lived, there is a story to be told”

Men Stories

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Philosophical

“With all your science can you tell me how it is, and when it is, that light comes into the soul?”

Soul Light Learning

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Philosophical

“Let us settle ourselves, and work and wedge our feet downwards through the mud and slush of opinion and tradition, and pride and prejudice, appearance and delusion, through the alluvium which covers the globe, through poetry and philosophy and religion, through church and state, through Paris and London, through New York and Boston and Concord, till we come to a hard bottom that rocks in place which we can call reality and say, "This is and no mistake.”

Mistake Philosophy New York

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Philosophical

“This whole earth which we inhabit is but a point in space. How far apart, think you, dwell the most distant inhabitants of yonder star, the breadth of whose disk cannot be appreciated by our instruments?”

Thinking Stars Space

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“The stars are the apexes of what wonderful triangles! What distant and different beings in the various mansions of the universe are contemplating the same one at the same moment!”

Different Stars Triangles

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