Top 39 Thoreau Simplicity Quotes
#2. Some simple dishes recommend themselves to our imaginations as well as palates.
Henry David Thoreau
#3. I am struck by the simplicity of light in the atmosphere in the autumn, as if the earth absorbed none, and out of this profusion of dazzling light came the autumnal tints.
Henry David Thoreau
#4. Furniture! Thank God, I can sit and I can stand without the aid of a furniture warehouse.
Henry David Thoreau
#5. As for the complex ways of living, I love them not, however much I practice them. In as many places as possible, I will get my feet down to the earth.
Henry David Thoreau
#8. Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself.
Henry David Thoreau
#9. Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb nail.
Henry David Thoreau
#10. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.
Henry David Thoreau
#11. Let him cut your skin, and you cut his flesh. Let him cut your flesh, and you cut his bones. Let him cut your bones, and you cut off his life
Toshitsugu Takamatsu
#13. That he live in all respects so compactly and preparedly that, if an enemy take the town, he can, like the old philosopher, walk out the gate empty-handed without anxiety.
Henry David Thoreau
#15. That seemed to be, if anything, the power of writing - to hold sway over memory, making it public, keeping it private, possibly, even, keeping it secret from oneself -
Samuel R. Delany
#16. To what end do I lead a simple life at all, pray? That I may teach others to simplify their lives? - and so all our lives be simplified merely, like an algebraic formula? Or not, rather, that I may make use of the ground I have cleared to live more worthily and profitably?
Henry David Thoreau
#17. Loyalty, up and down the line. That's one quality an organization must have to be successful.
Bum Phillips
#18. If we would aim at perfection in any thing, simplicity must not be overlooked.
Henry David Thoreau
#22. The savage lives simply through ignorance and idleness or laziness, but the philosopher lives simply through wisdom.
Henry David Thoreau
#23. Great things demand that we either remain silent about them or speak in a great manner: in a great manner, that is-cynically and with innocence.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#24. When the earth opens up under your feet, be like a seed. Fall down; wait for the rain.
Alexander Chee
#25. Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Turn the old; return to them. Things do not change; we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts. God will see that you do not want society.
Henry David Thoreau
#26. My themes will not be far-fetched. I will tell of homely every-day phenomena and adventures.
Henry David Thoreau
#27. Having more of this world never fulfills. Only more of Christ does.
Craig Groeschel
#28. I am thinking by what long discipline and at what cost a man learns to speak simply at last.
Henry David Thoreau
#29. None can be an impartial or wise observer of human life but from the vantage ground of what we should call voluntary poverty.
Henry David Thoreau
#31. Strings of coincidence can strengthen us in the determination to follow our deepest intuitions even when they run counter to conventional wisdom and logic and cannot be subjected to rational explanation.
Robert Moss
#33. Nudity is natural but not until a person accepts and loves who they are.
Jolene Blalock
#34. Exile in a real place, a place of few bodies and many stones, is just an extension (a packaging) of the other exile, the state of being separated from whatever is left of the center of one's own history
Don DeLillo
#35. It is desirable that a man live in all respects so simply and preparedly that if an enemy take the town ... he can walk out the gate empty-handed and without anxiety.
Henry David Thoreau
#36. The very austerity of the Brahmans is tempting to the devotional soul, as a more refined and nobler luxury. Wants so easily and gracefully satisfied seem like a more refined pleasure. Their conception of creation is peaceful as a dream.
Henry David Thoreau
#37. 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
#38. A simple and independent mind does not toil at the bidding of any prince.
Henry David Thoreau
#39. Pray, for what do we move ever but to get rid of our furniture, our exuviae; at last to go from this world to another newly furnished, and leave this to be burned?
Henry David Thoreau
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