Henry David Thoreau Quotes About Consciousness

• Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Wisdom, Travel, Character

• We bless and curse ourselves.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Knowledge, Consciousness, Bless

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.123, Penguin

• Every man has to learn the points of the compass again as often as he awakes, whether from sleep or any abstraction.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Knowledge, Sleep, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (1999). “Uncommon Learning: Thoreau on Education”, p.37, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• It is no more dusky in ordinary nights than our mind's habitual atmosphere, and the moonlight is as bright as our most illuminatedmoments are.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Night, Atmosphere

  Henry David Thoreau, Horace Elisha Scudder, Harrison Gray Otis Blake, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Franklin Benjamin Sanborn (1803). “The Writings of Henry David Thoreau”, p.408

• The unconsciousness of man is the consciousness of God.

  Henry David Thoreau

  God, Men, Consciousness

  Henry David Thoreau (1873). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.348

• Perhaps anxious politicians may prove that only seventeen white men and five negroes were concerned in the late enterprise; but their very anxiety to prove this might suggest to themselves that all is not told. Why do they still dodge the truth? They are so anxious because of a dim consciousness of the fact, which they do not distinctly face, that at least a million of the free inhabitants of the United States would have rejoiced if it had succeeded. They at most only criticise the tactics.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, White, Anxiety

  Henry David Thoreau, Nancy L. Rosenblum (1996). “Thoreau: Political Writings”, p.142, Cambridge University Press

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