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Henry David Thoreau Quotes
| Birthday: | July 12, 1817 |
| Birthplace: | Concord, Massachusetts, United States |
| Death: | May 6, 1862 |
| Educated At: | Harvard University, Harvard College |
| Lifestyle: | Vegetarian |
| Manner of Death: | Natural Causes |
| Nationality: | United States Of America |
| Occupations: | Essayist, Autobiographer, Diarist, Philosopher, Writer |
| Religion: | Unitarianism |
Total quotes: 30
Henry David Thoreau
BirthnameBirthday: July 12, 1817
Birthplace: Concord, Massachusetts, United States
Death: May 6, 1862
Educated At: Harvard University, Harvard College
Lifestyle: Vegetarian
Manner of Death: Natural Causes
Nationality: United States Of America
Occupations: Essayist, Autobiographer, Diarist, Philosopher, Writer
Religion: Unitarianism
Total quotes: 30
“I have, as it were, my own sun and moon and stars, and a little world all to myself.”
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Solitude, solitary, Isolated, Isolation, solitary enjoyment, Alone, Own World, alone time, Aloneness
“To be a philosopher is to solve some of the problems of life–not only theoretically but practically.”
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Conclusion
“We need the tonic of wildness... At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be indefinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable. We can never have enough of nature.”
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How To Think, Nature
“I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.”
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Literary Fame
“It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.”
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seeing, looking vs. seeing, Looking, witnessing, beholding, perceiving, believing, Enlightened
“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practise resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms.”
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Literary Fame
“I do believe in simplicity. It is astonishing as well as sad, how many trivial affairs even the wisest thinks he must attend to in a day; how singular an affair he thinks he must omit. When the mathematician would solve a difficult problem, he first frees the equation of all encumbrances, and reduces it to its simplest terms. So simplify the problem of life, distinguish the necessary and the real. Probe the earth to see where your main roots run. ”
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Minimalism & Simplicity, Philosophy
“I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. He will put some things behind, will pass an invisible boundary; new, universal, and more liberal laws will begin to establish themselves around and within him; or the old laws will be expanded, and interpreted in his favor in a more liberal sense, and he will live with the license of a higher order of beings.”
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Obstacles
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