I found in myself, and still find, an instinct toward a higher, or, as it is named, spiritual life, as do most men, and another toward a primitive rank and savage one, and I reverence them both. I love the wild not less than the good.
("Walden, or Life in the Woods")
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The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.
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To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts But so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates.
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The man of genius knows what he is aiming at nobody else knows. And he alone knows when something comes between him and his object. In the course of generations, however, men will excuse you for not doing as they do, if you will bring enough to pass in your own way.
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