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Mathematics should be mixed not only with physics but with ethics.

Mathematics should be mixed not only with physics but with ethics.

Henry David Thoreau
Ethics, Morality, Physics
Henry David Thoreau (1975). “Early Essays and Miscellanies”, p.362, Princeton University Press

He who eats the fruit should at least plant the seed; ay, if possible, a better seed than that whose fruit he has enjoyed.

Henry David Thoreau
Fruit, Morality, Plant
Henry David Thoreau, Jeffrey S. Cramer (2007). “I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau”, p.8, Yale University Press

Man's moral nature is a riddle which only eternity can solve.

Henry David Thoreau
Men, Morality, Eternity
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.2126, Delphi Classics

Nature is goodness crystallized.

Henry David Thoreau
Nature, Morality, Goodness
Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Familiar Letters (Annotated Edition)”, p.284, Jazzybee Verlag

Our whole life is startlingly moral. There is never an instant's truce between virtue and vice.

Henry David Thoreau
Life, Vices, Morality
Henry David Thoreau (2000). “Walden and Other Writings: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.214, Modern Library

But they who are unconcerned about the consequences of their actions are not therefore unconcerned about their actions.

Henry David Thoreau
Morality, Action, Unconcerned
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.115, Courier Corporation

There is no such thing as accomplishing a righteous reform by the use of "expediency." There is no such thing as sliding up- hill.In morals the only sliders are backsliders.

Henry David Thoreau
Reform, Use, Morality
Henry David Thoreau (1992). “The Essays of Henry David Thoreau”, p.43, Rowman & Littlefield

The New Testament is remarkable for its pure morality; the best of the Hindoo Scripture, for its pure intellectuality. The readeris nowhere raised into and sustained in a higher, purer, or rarer region of thought than in the Bhagvat-Geeta.... It is unquestionably one of the noblest and most sacred scriptures which have come down to us.

Henry David Thoreau
Bible, Sacred Scripture, Morality
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.112, Courier Corporation

Where there is not discernment, the behavior even of the purest soul may in effect amount to coarseness.

Henry David Thoreau
Soul, May, Morality
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1138, Delphi Classics

Good deeds are no less good because their object is unworthy.

Henry David Thoreau
Deeds, Morality, Objects
Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Familiar Letters (Annotated Edition)”, p.137, Jazzybee Verlag

Whatever is, and is not ashamed to be, is good.

Henry David Thoreau
Morality, Ashamed, Good Moral
Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson (1865). “Letters to Various Persons”, p.194

The sort of morality which the priests inculcate is a very subtle policy, far finer than the politicians', and the world is very successfully ruled by them as the policemen.

Henry David Thoreau
Power, World, Morality
Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.96, Penguin

I say, break the law.

Henry David Thoreau
Law, Morality, Lawyer
Civil Disobedience (1849) See Savio 1

What is morality but immemorial custom? Conscience is the chief of conservatives.

Henry David Thoreau
Ethics, Morality, Chiefs
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.537, Simon and Schuster

You cannot receive a shock unless you have an electric affinity for that which shocks you.

Henry David Thoreau
Ethics, Morality, Affinity
Henry David Thoreau (1873). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.303

No man loses ever on a lower level by magnanimity on a higher.

Henry David Thoreau
Men, Levels, Morality
Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.193, Graphic Arts Books

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