Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreauwas an American essayist, poet, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, and historian. A leading transcendentalist, Thoreau is best known for his book Walden, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay Resistance to Civil Government, an argument for disobedience to an unjust state...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth12 July 1817
CountryUnited States of America
above advice aim good morality simply
Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.
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Mathematics should be mixed not only with physics but with ethics.
morality action unconcerned
But they who are unconcerned about the consequences of their actions are not therefore unconcerned about their actions.
nature morality goodness
Nature is goodness crystallized.
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A man had better starve at once than lose his innocence in the process of getting his bread.
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You cannot receive a shock unless you have an electric affinity for that which shocks you.
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What is morality but immemorial custom? Conscience is the chief of conservatives.
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Man's moral nature is a riddle which only eternity can solve.
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Morality is how you go about getting what you want without screwing anybody to get it.
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Our whole life is startlingly moral. There is never an instant's truce between virtue and vice.
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The New Testament is remarkable for its pure morality; the best of the Hindoo Scripture, for its pure intellectuality. The readeris nowhere raised into and sustained in a higher, purer, or rarer region of thought than in the Bhagvat-Geeta.... It is unquestionably one of the noblest and most sacred scriptures which have come down to us.
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No man loses ever on a lower level by magnanimity on a higher.
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Whatever is, and is not ashamed to be, is good.
deeds morality objects
Good deeds are no less good because their object is unworthy.