Henry David Thoreau Transcendentalism Quotes

#1. Surely, we are provided with senses as well fitted to penetrate the spaces of the real, the substantial, the eternal, as these outward are to penetrate the material universe. Veias, Menu, Zoroaster, Socrates, Christ, Shakespeare, Swedenborg,
these are some of our astronomers.

Henry David Thoreau

#2. I wanted to live deep and suck out the all the marrow of life ( ... ).

Henry David Thoreau

#3. My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

#4. What is a course of history, or philosophy, or poetry, no matter how well selected, or the best society, or the most admirable routine of life, compared with the discipline of looking always at what is to be seen?

Henry David Thoreau

#5. Everything may serve a lower as well as a higher use.

Henry David Thoreau

#6. Her eyes were as sad as they were fierce.

Benjamin Alire Saenz

#7. Every man is entitled to come to Cattle-Show, even a transcendentalist; and for my part I am more interested in the men than in the cattle.

Henry David Thoreau

#8. I recognise that fishing is perhaps not the most high-employment industry in this country, but it's a symbol of what we lost when we entered the E.U.: control over national resources that, if we retained them, we could have husbanded in our interest and, indeed, in the interest of others.

Michael Gove

#9. The determination in your heroic effort
Will permeate your mind and heart
Even after your success or failure
Is long forgotten.

Sri Chinmoy

#10. It was interesting the way a small hate could grow inside a big hate and take it over.

Laini Taylor

#11. I move forward
with my
drawer of treasures
that will never decay.

Cory Basil

#12. As for Doing-good, that is one of the professions which are full.

Henry David Thoreau

#13. Normal people live distracted, rarely fully present. Weird people silence the distractions and remain fully in the moment.

Craig Groeschel

#14. This whole earth in which we inhabit is but a point is space.

Henry David Thoreau

#15. I started feeling it was wrong to withhold my music for money - as strange as that might sound!

Jane Siberry

#16. We do not enjoy poetry unless we know it to be poetry.

Henry David Thoreau

#17. My advice would be to write-never to stop writing, to keep it up all the time, to be painstaking about it, to write until you begin to write.

Gabriel Fielding

#18. The big lock-up is about drugs. Here's the real scam. The drug war is one of the games to get more convictions and prisoners.

Jerry Brown