Henry David Thoreau — Philosophical Quotes

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Henry David Thoreau Quotes

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Henry David Thoreau

Writer, Philosopher

Philosophical

“It is only necessary that man should start a fence that Nature should carry it on and complete it. The farmer cannot plow quite up to the rails or wall which he himself has placed, and hence it often becomes a hedgerow and sometimes a coppice.”

Men Wall Hedgerows

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Henry David Thoreau

Writer, Philosopher

Philosophical

“Four things to think about. 1. Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes. 2. Let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred. 3. Keep three chairs in your house. One for solitude, two for friendship, three for society. 4. To preserve your relationship to nature, make your life more moral, more pure, more innocent.”

Thinking Life Nature

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Philosophical

“The cost of a thing is something called life which is given in exchange for it.”

Cost Given

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Philosophical

“The only sin in the world is ignorance.”

World Ignorance

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Philosophical

“He who cuts down woods beyond a certain limit exterminates birds.”

Cutting Bird Woods

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Philosophical

“We must look a long time before we can see”

Long Looks

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Philosophical

“Be it life or death, we crave only reality.”

Reality Crave

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Philosophical

“As for the tenets of the Brahmans, we are not so much concerned to know what doctrines they held, as that they were held by any. We can tolerate all philosophies.... It is the attitude of these men, more than any communication which they make, that attracts us.”

Philosophy Attitude Truth

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Philosophical

“After all the field of battle possesses many advantages over the drawing-room. There at least is no room for pretension or excessive ceremony, no shaking of hands or rubbing of noses, which make one doubt your sincerity, but hearty as well as hard hand-play. It at least exhibits one of the faces of humanity, the former only a mask.”

Play Hands Drawing

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Philosophical

“And if the civilized man's pursuits are no worthier than the savage's, if he is employed the greater part of his life in obtaininggross necessaries and comforts merely, why should he have a better dwelling than the former?”

Men Civilization Dwelling

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Philosophical

“Some interests have got a footing on the earth which we have not made sufficient allowance for.”

Earth Made Dogma

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Philosophical

“It is never too late to give up our prejudices. No way of thinking or doing, however, ancient, can be trusted without proof. ... Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.”

People Thinking Giving Up

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