When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of reality. This is exhilarating and sublime. Henry David Thoreau (1817 – 1862)
If by patience, if by watching, I can secure one new ray of light, can feel myself elevated… shall I not watch ever? Henry David Thoreau (1817 – 1862)
To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live, according to its dictates, a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity, and trust. Henry David Thoreau (1817 – 1862)
I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than to be crowded on a velvet cushion. Henry David Thoreau (1817 – 1862)
What is the use of going right over the old track again? You must make tracks into the unknown. Henry David Thoreau (1817 – 1862)
Humility, like darkness, reveals the heavenly lights. Henry David Thoreau (1817 – 1862)
If men would steadily observe realities only, and not allow themselves to be deluded, life, to compare it with such things as we know, would be like a fairy tale and the Arabian Night’s Entertainments. If we respected only what is inevitable and has a right to be, music and poetry would resound along the streets. Henry David Thoreau (1817 […]
By closing the eyes and slumbering, and consenting to be deceived by shows, men establish and confirm their daily life of routine and habit everywhere, which still is built on purely illusory foundations. Children, who play life, discern its true law. Henry David Thoreau (1817 – 1862)
We are surrounded by a rich and fertile mystery. May we not probe it, pry into it, employ ourselves about it, a little? Henry David Thoreau (1817 – 1862)
The true harvest of my daily life is somewhat as intangible and indescribable as the tints of morning or evening. It is a little star-dust caught, a segment of the rainbow which I have clutched. Henry David Thoreau (1817 – 1862)
