Henry David Thoreau Quotes About Appearance

• 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

• Let us settle ourselves, and work and wedge our feet downwards through the mud and slush of opinion and tradition, and pride and prejudice, appearance and delusion, through the alluvium which covers the globe, through poetry and philosophy and religion, through church and state, through Paris and London, through New York and Boston and Concord, till we come to a hard bottom that rocks in place which we can call reality and say, "This is and no mistake.

  Henry David Thoreau

  New York, Philosophy, Mistake

• There is none who does not lie hourly in the respect he pays to false appearance.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Respect, Truth, Lying

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

• 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

• I perceive that we inhabitants of New England live this mean life that we do because our vision does not penetrate the surface ofthings. We think that that is which appears to be.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Mean, Thinking, Vision

  Henry David Thoreau (1882). “Walden”, p.152

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