Henry David Thoreau on reality
“The universe is wider than our views of it.”
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Simplify the problem of life, distinguish the necessary and the real.
Henry David ThoreauHenry David Thoreau It takes two to speak the truth – one to speak and another to hear.
Henry David ThoreauHenry David Thoreau Take long walks in stormy weather or through deep snows in the fields and woods, if you would keep your spirits up. Deal with brute nature. Be cold and hungry and weary.
Henry David ThoreauHenry David Thoreau Wildness is the preservation of the World.
Henry David ThoreauHenry David Thoreau The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
Henry David ThoreauHenry David Thoreau I can alter my life by altering my attitude. He who would have nothing to do with thorns must never attempt to gather flowers.
Henry David ThoreauHenry David Thoreau If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
Henry David ThoreauHenry David Thoreau A lake is a landscape’s most beautiful and expressive feature. It is Earth’s eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature.
Henry David ThoreauHenry David Thoreau To be awake is to be alive. I have never yet met a man who was quite awake.
Henry David ThoreauHenry David Thoreau Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
Henry David ThoreauHenry David Thoreau I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life.
Henry David ThoreauHenry David Thoreau Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
Henry David ThoreauHenry David Thoreau Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
Henry David ThoreauHenry David Thoreau Men are born to succeed, not to fail.
Henry David ThoreauHenry David Thoreau Every path but your own is the path of fate. Keep on your own track, then.
Henry David ThoreauHenry David Thoreau Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day.
Henry David ThoreauHenry David Thoreau
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