Henry David Thoreau Transcendental Quotations

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.

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

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

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.

What demon possessed me that I behaved so well?

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

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

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

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.

In wildness is the preservation of the world.