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
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What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing about the origin and destiny of cats?
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The ancient philosophers, Chinese, Hindu, Persian, and Greek, were a class than which none has been poorer in outward riches, none so rich inward.
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To be a philosopher... is to solve some of the problems of life, not only theoretically, but practically.
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Every man will be a poet if he can; otherwise a philosopher or man of science. This proves the superiority of the poet.
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There are nowadays professors of philosophy, but not philosophers
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Say, Not so, and you will out circle the philosophers.
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What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing of the origin and destiny of cats?
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There never was and is not likely soon to be a nation of philosophers, nor am I certain it is desirable that there should be.
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What's the use of a fine house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
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I should be pleased to meet man in the woods. I wish he were to be encountered like wild caribous and moose.
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The works of the great poets have never yet been read by mankind, for only great poets can read them
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Far travel, very far travel, or travail, comes to almost the worth of staying home.
Say what you have to say, not what you ought.
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Public opinion is a weak tyrant, compared with our private opinion - what a man thinks of himself, that is which determines, or rather indicates his fate