Quotes & Sayings About Transcendentalism By Henry David Thoreau

Everything may serve a lower as well as a higher use. — Henry David Thoreau

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

I have heard of a man lost in the woods and dying of famine and exhaustion at the foot of a tree, whose loneliness was relieved by the grotesque visions with which, owing to bodily weakness, his diseased imagination surrounded him, and which he believed to be real. So also, owing to bodily and mental health and strength, we may be continually cheered by a like but more normal and natural society, and come to know that we are never alone. — Henry David Thoreau

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

What is a course of history, or philosophy, or poetry, no matter how well selected, or the best society, or the most admirable routine of life, compared with the discipline of looking always at what is to be seen? — Henry David Thoreau

This whole earth in which we inhabit is but a point is space. — Henry David Thoreau

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

We do not enjoy poetry unless we know it to be poetry. — Henry David Thoreau

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