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
women perception sentimental
A man of fine perceptions is more truly feminine than a merely sentimental woman.
knowledge learning perception
All perception of truth is the detection of an analogy.
truth joy perception
In all perception of the truth there is a divine ecstasy, an inexpressible delirium of joy, as when a youth embraces his betrothed virgin.
mean thinking perception
I perceive that we inhabitants of New England live this mean life that we do because our vision does not penetrate the surface ofthings. We think that that is which appears to be.
men common-sense perception
Why level downward to our dullest perception always, and praise that as common sense? The commonest sense is the sense of men asleep, which they express by snoring.
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Action from principle, the perception and the performance of right, changes things and relations; it is essentially revolutionary, and does not consist wholly with anything which was. It not only divides States and churches, it divides families; ay, it divides the individual, separating the diabolical in him from the divine.
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The perception of beauty is a moral test.
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There is no remedy for love than to love more.
difference drinking eating mere strength
There is a difference between eating and drinking for strength and for mere gluttony.
light science
With all your science can you tell how it is, and whence it is, that Light comes into the soul?
edit women
To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit it and read it are old women over their tea.
affect highest quality
To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of the arts.
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To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts. Every man is tasked to make his life, even in its details, worthy of the contemplation of his most elevated and critical hour.
born inherit property rather
To inherit property is not to be born - is to be stillborn, rather