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Henry David Thoreau Quotes about Transcendentalism

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As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

Henry David Thoreau
Time, Memories, Transcendentalism
'Walden' (1854) 'Economy'

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

Henry David Thoreau
Deeds Done, Transcendentalism, Good Deeds
'Walden' (1854) 'Economy'

I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life.

Henry David Thoreau
Dead Poets Society, Transcendentalism, Wilderness
"Walden: Or, Life in the Woods".

In wildness is the preservation of the world.

Henry David Thoreau
Camping, World, Transcendentalism
"Walking" (1862)

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
Real, Space, Transcendentalism
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.307, Courier Corporation

I heartily accept the motto, "That government is best which governs least"; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically.

Henry David Thoreau
Government, Transcendentalism, Anarchist
Civil Disobedience (1849) See Ralph Waldo Emerson 29; O'Sullivan 1; Shipley 1

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

Henry David Thoreau
Transcendentalism, Enjoy, Knows
'Journal' 1 October 1856 (published 1903)

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
Men, Transcendentalism, He Man
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1225, Delphi Classics

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

Henry David Thoreau
Use, May, Transcendentalism
Henry David Thoreau (2004). “Walden and Other Writings”, p.410, Bantam Classics

I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practice resignation, unless it was quite necessary.

Henry David Thoreau
Practice, Wish, Transcendentalism
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.3143, Delphi Classics

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