Henry David Thoreau Philosophical Quotes

Writer, Philosopher

Philosophical

“The repugnance to animal food is not the effect of experience, but is an instinct. It appeared more beautiful to live low and farehard in many respects; and though I never did so, I went far enough to please my imagination.”

Beautiful Animal Imagination

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Henry David Thoreau

Writer, Philosopher

Philosophical

“A stranger may easily detect what is strange to the oldest inhabitant, for the strange is his province.”

May Strange Stranger

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Philosophical

“There is always room and occasion enough for a true book on any subject; as there is room for more light the brightest day and more rays will not interfere with the first.”

Book Light Reading

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Philosophical

“The book exists for us perchance which will explain our miracles and and reveal new ones. The at present unutterable things we may find somewhere uttered. These same questions that disturb and puzzle and confound us have in their turn occurred to all the wise men; not one has been omitted; and each has answered them, according to his ability, by his words and his life.”

Book Reading Wise

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Philosophical

“If men were to be destroyed and the books they have written were to be transmitted to a new race of creatures, in a new world, what kind of record would be found in them of so remarkable a phenomenon as the rainbow?”

Men Book Reading

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Philosophical

“The outward is only the outside of that which is within. Men are not concealed under habits, but are revealed by them; they are their true clothes.”

Men Character Clothes

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Philosophical

“The whole tree itself is but one leaf, and rivers are still vaster leaves whose pulp is intervening earth, and towns and cities are the ova of insects in their axils.”

Cities Nature Rivers

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Philosophical

“We have need to be earth-born as well as heaven-born, gegeneis, as was said of the Titans of old, or in a better sense than they.”

Needs Heaven Earth

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Philosophical

“Even in civilized communities, the embryo man passes through the hunter stage of development.”

Men Community Hunting

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Philosophical

“As for Clothing, to come at once to the practical part of the question, perhaps we are led oftener by the love of novelty and a regard for the opinions of men, in procuring it, than by a true utility.”

Men Opinion Novelty

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Philosophical

“Every day our garments become more assimilated to ourselves, receiving the impress of the wearer's character, until we hesitate tolay them aside without such delay and medical appliances and some such solemnity even as our bodies.”

Character Receiving Delay

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Philosophical

“Compared with this simple, fibrous life, our civilized history appears the chronicle of debility, of fashion, and the arts of luxury. But the civilized man misses no real refinement in the poetry of the rudest era. It reminds him that civilization does but dress men. It makes shoes, but it does not toughen the soles of the feet. It makes cloth of finer texture, but it does not touch the skin. Inside the civilized man stands the savage still in the place of honor. We are those blue-eyed, yellow-haired Saxons, those slender, dark-haired Normans.”

Art Real Fashion

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Henry David Thoreau — Philosophical Quotes

Henry David Thoreau Quotes