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When was it that men agreed to respect the appearance and not the reality?

When was it that men agreed to respect the appearance and not the reality?

Henry David Thoreau

Respect, Reality, Men

Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.361, Penguin

Be it life or death, we crave only reality.

Henry David Thoreau

Reality, Life Or Death, Crave

Henry David Thoreau (1995). “Walden, Or, Life in the Woods”, p.64, Courier Corporation

I have a great deal of company in my house; especially in the morning, when nobody calls.

Henry David Thoreau

Good Morning, Reality, House

"Walden, Or, Life in the Woods".

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 the reality.

Henry David Thoreau

Wise, Fear, Reality

Henry David Thoreau (2016). “Walden”, p.69, Xist Publishing

We are enabled to apprehend at all what is sublime and noble only by the perpetual instilling and drenching of the reality that surrounds us. We can never have enough of nature.

Henry David Thoreau

Reality, Sublime, Atheism

You speak of poverty and dependence. Who are poor and dependent? Who are rich and independent? When was it that men agreed to respect the appearance and not the reality?

Henry David Thoreau

Truth, Independent, Reality

Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.361, Penguin

The greatest gains and values are farthest from being appreciated. We easily come to doubt if they exist. We soon forget them. They are the highest reality.

Henry David Thoreau

Truth, Knowledge, Reality

Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.132, Graphic Arts Books

The frontiers are not east or west, north or south; but wherever a man fronts a fact, though that fact be a neighbor, there is anunsettled wilderness between him and Canada, between him and the setting sun, or, farther still, between him and it. Let him build himself a log house with the bark on where he is, fronting IT, and wage there an Old French war for seven or seventy years, with Indians and Rangers, or whatever else may come between him and the reality, and save his scalp if he can.

Henry David Thoreau

War, Reality, Men

Henry David Thoreau (2014). “A Week On The Concord And Merrimack Rivers (Annotated Edition)”, p.257, Jazzybee Verlag

The customs of some savage nations might, perchance, be profitably imitated by us, for they at least go through the semblance of casting their slough annually; they have the idea of the thing, whether they have the reality or not.

Henry David Thoreau

Reality, Ideas, Savages

Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.189, Penguin

If the condition of things which we were made for is not yet, what were any reality which we can substitute? We will not be shipwrecked on a vain reality.

Henry David Thoreau

Reality, Vain, Made

Henry David Thoreau, Jeffrey S. Cramer (2007). “I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau”, p.79, Yale University Press

Shams and delusions are esteemed for soundest truths, while reality is fabulous. If men would steadily observe realities only, and not allow themselves to be deluded, life ... would be like a fairy tale and the Arabian Nights' Entertainments.

Henry David Thoreau

Night, Reality, Men

Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Walden”, p.62, Cosimo, Inc.